TOKYO, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TIER IV, the pioneering force behind open-source software for autonomous driving, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Astemo, to jointly develop a next-generation software development platform for autonomous driving systems. Through this collaboration, the two companies will leverage TIER IV's Co-MLOps solution – collaborative data-sharing technology – to build Astemo's next-generation development platform, enabling the continuous development and improvement of production-quality end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving AI models, with commercialization targeted around 2030. Astemo aims to deploy E2E autonomous driving AI models in passenger vehicles in the early 2030s using this development platform. E2E autonomous driving AI models – which integrate perception, planning and control into a single learning process – are emerging as a foundational technology for next-generation advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving systems. As autonomous driving technology advances, TIER IV is working toward Level 4+ autonomy to gradually expand fully autonomous driving into more complex environments. E2E AI models are a key technology for achieving this goal. Bringing these models to production readiness requires compliance with automotive safety and manufacturing standards. It also demands an AI development infrastructure capable of continuously collecting, processing, training and evaluating large-scale driving data. Such infrastructure forms the foundation for the continuous evolution of E2E AI models and will be a key source of competitiveness for future production autonomous driving systems. Through their involvement in the Autoware Foundation (AWF) and SOAFEE, TIER IV and Astemo previously collaborated on the reference implementation of Open AD Kit, a cloud-native framework for autonomous driving development based on Autoware. Astemo is also involved in TIER IV's Co-MLOps project, launched in January 2024. This latest initiative deepens their partnership and expands TIER IV's data-sharing platform for autonomous driving AI development. TIER IV leads the development of Autoware and advances
Aug 5, 2026 · via prnewswire.com
Armed with feedback from more than half a million riders, autonomous vehicle pioneer Zoox has unveiled the final production design of its purpose-built robotaxi. The company said its latest vehicle will ready its custom, driverless fleet for mass manufacturing and immediate commercial expansion. Zoox opened its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas a year ago. Since then, the company has continued to expand the service to new cities across the nation. The Amazon-subsidiary is in a race to harden and optimize its software and ultimately begin revenue-generating rides in Las Vegas. Free/trial service will continue in San Francisco, with new services coming to Austin, Miami, Dallas and Phoenix. What sets Zoox apart from competitors like Waymo is what Zoox describes as a “carriage-like” user cabin. The Zoox vehicles have no steering wheel or pedals inside the cabin. The vehicle is designed for four adult passengers, who sit facing each other inside the cabin. In late June 2026, the newest generation of Zoox vehicles was released to the field. Inside the new robotaxi Inside, the cabin shifts to a lighter, more relaxed aesthetic with monochrome aloe-green seating paired with stone-grey trim and flooring. According to the company, it designed the simplified color palette to minimize visual distractions and create a calmer atmosphere for passengers. Beyond aesthetics, the revised materials are built to withstand urban wear and tear while offering higher contrast, making forgotten personal items like phones and bags easier to spot before exiting. “The updates we’ve made to this iteration of our purpose-built robotaxi continue to further distinguish the Zoox experience from anything else available today,” said Chris Stoffel, the director of Robot Industrial Design and Studio Engineering. “The simplicity of the elevated interior design does not demand a rider’s attention like so many of the features found
Aug 4, 2026 · via therobotreport.com
What does that mean for the future of drone and robotic warfare? Virginia Tech aerospace and ocean engineering experts Craig Woolsey and Mingi Jeong share takeaways about the importance of autonomous research and workforce development in national security. Seeing New Kinds of Interconnected Robots “What makes this example in Ukraine unique is not simply that an uncrewed boat reached its destination, but that it deployed a different type of robotic system to perform a follow-on task,” Jeong said. “As the technology evolves, we will likely see increasingly capable teams of heterogeneous robots combining aerial, surface, underwater, and ground platforms,” he added. “Because of that, field reliability, cybersecurity, and trustworthy decision-making will become increasingly important.” Autonomous Sea Transportation Is on the Rise “More than 80 percent of global trade by volume is transported by sea, and autonomous technologies could contribute to safer and more efficient maritime transportation,” Jeong said. “Robotic capabilities can also support environmental monitoring, ecosystem assessment, infrastructure inspection, aquaculture, oil-spill response, search-and-rescue missions, and more.” Autonomous Technologies Will Be Everywhere Woolsey said the evolution of autonomous vehicles is happening quickly and across domains. “The biggest advances aren’t just in robotics,” he said. “They’re coming from improvements in batteries, computing, sensors, cameras, and communications, largely driven by consumer electronics. Together, those technologies are making autonomous systems far more capable than they were even a decade ago.” Woolsey added, “Virginia Tech is focused on the boundaries between air, land, sea, and space, which is where the hardest engineering problems exist.” Both experts said it will be important to train the future workforce to understand the applications of these technologies while doing so ethically and responsibly. “Virginia Tech students don’t just learn engineering,” Woolsey said. “They learn to solve problems for society. That mindset is urgently needed as autonomous technologies continue to
Aug 4, 2026 · via oceannews.com
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Team Peugeot TotalEnergies has announced that it has started “the next chapter in the evolution of the Peugeot 9X8”, as it targets approval for the new vehicle for the 2027 FIA World Endurance Championship season. Drawing on the experience gained in the car’s debut in the Hypercar category, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies is working on a series of technical evolutions aimed at enhancing performance, efficiency and competitiveness and said that this latest step marks an important milestone in the ongoing development of the Peugeot 9X8. “Since its debut, the Peugeot 9X8 has been a platform in constant evolution. Competing at the highest level of endurance racing means continuously learning, adapting and progressing,” said Emmanuel Esnault, team principal, Team Peugeot TotalEnergies. “The intensity of competition at a world championship level reinforces our determination to keep evolving. Our objective is clear: to position the 9X8 consistently among the top contenders. “As we look ahead to 2027, the team is taking the next step in its development, focused on a revised approach to performance, efficiency and design. This work is a key milestone in preparing the next chapter of the Peugeot 9X8 story and perpetuating the legacy of Peugeot in endurance racing.” Recent news, Göpel Electronic launches modular battery cell tester
Aug 4, 2026 · via automotivetestingtechnologyinternational.com
Autonomous car maker Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, opening it up to all residents and visitors. This is the latest step in the Alphabet-owned company’s bid to scale its self-driving technology across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Waymo said Tuesday that anyone can now download the app and immediately hail one of its robotaxis in Dallas. For now, riders won’t be able to hail a ride to Dallas Love Field Airport. The company said it continues to test its self-driving vehicles at the airport and expects to serve riders there “soon.” The company has had a presence in Dallas since last year, when it began testing its technology on public streets and announced plans to launch the service there in 2026. At the time, the company said it would partner with Avis Budget Group to manage its fleet of all-electric autonomous Jaguar I-Pace vehicles. Avis handles general depot operations, including charging and maintaining the vehicles. Waymo opened the service to the public in February, but initially limited access through a waitlist. Waymo said about 150,000 riders used the Waymo app during this period. Waymo no longer has the waitlist, following a robotaxi playbook that it has used in every other market, including Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The company’s entry into Dallas had some early hiccups. In May, Waymo paused its service in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas, as well as Atlanta, due to problems with how its robotaxis handled heavy rain and flooded roads. While robotaxi services have resumed in these cities, Waymo said it may adjust or temporarily pause operations based on severe weather, flood warnings, and real-time conditions in the future. A Waymo spokesperson said riders can check the status of its service via the Waymo
Aug 4, 2026 · via techcrunch.com
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Amidst planned upgrades, the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School’s Research Division simultaneously executed two accelerated test programs, HAVE HEAT and HAVE HOLIDAYS, utilizing the X-62 VISTA here throughout April 2026. Driven by the Test Resource Management Center’s X-62 Mission Systems Upgrades (MSU), these latest milestones reflect continued emphasis on the safe acceleration of artificial intelligence and autonomy capabilities for the warfighter. HAVE HEAT: Autonomous AI sensor-to-vehicle control Leveraging https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2026-08-04-Skunk-Works-R-Advances-Sensor-Powered-AI-Fighter-Intercept, the X-62 VISTA platform demonstrated the ability of AI agents to ingest live infrared sensor data, directing the X-62 to autonomously intercept an airborne target in real time. “HAVE HEAT represents a meaningful expansion of avionics capability towards integrated, AI-driven control of multiple sensors and air vehicles for mission autonomy. This bridges a capability gap and positions us to test advanced autonomy faster,” says Lt. Col. Joshua Strafaccia, dean of faculty for research, U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. HAVE HOLIDAYS: Integrating framework required for advanced technology evaluation In parallel, HAVE HOLIDAYS saw simultaneous integration and evaluation of a wide suite of modular technologies into the X-62’s Enterprise Open Mission System Architecture computer. This included the integration of a non-prime, third-party autonomous agent onto the X-62, testing of enhanced safety rules to prevent autonomous vehicles from violating user-established operational limits, and further chip integration for advanced sensor exploitation. This system-of-systems test served as critical technical risk mitigation on the design and development of logistics and integration frameworks required to maximize flight opportunities post-MSU, paving the way for broader government, academic, and industry partnerships. Preparing for X-62 VISTA’s future All ground testing across the blended team of military, government and contractor engineers was completed within three months, with HAVE HEAT and HAVE HOLIDAYS executed in parallel under compressed timelines. The swift execution of both test campaigns proves X-62’s suitability for rapid
Aug 4, 2026 · via dvidshub.net
US , August 4, 2026 - NVIDIA has launched Alpamayo 2 Super, a new artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model for autonomous vehicles (AVs), which is set to help developers build safer and more transparent self-driving systems. The new model, which is available for commercial use under an open license, is designed to handle complex and unpredictable driving situations that autonomous vehicles are struggling with. The company said that the new model is part of the Alpamayo family of open reasoning models, which it has branded as the most widely adopted open reasoning models for autonomous driving on Hugging Face. The model is built on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and has been post-trained using reinforcement learning to improve reasoning across multiple autonomous driving tasks, according to the company. NVIDIA added that Alpamayo 2 Super processes full 360-degree camera views from the front, sides, and rear of a vehicle, allowing it to better understand lane changes, highway merges, unprotected turns, and complex intersections. For every driving scenario, the model generates five outputs, including a planned vehicle trajectory, a chain-of-causation explanation describing its reasoning, a driving intent such as yielding or changing lanes, automated reasoning labels for training datasets, and visual question answering linked to specific regions in camera images, according to NVIDIA. “Handling these long‑tail events takes more than just object detection and motion prediction. AVs must understand the situation, reason about cause and effect, choose the right action and turn that decision into a safe, comfortable path — all in real time and in a way developers can inspect, validate and trust,” the company stated. “Alpamayo 2 Super is part of NVIDIA’s growing collection of open models, datasets and tools for autonomous driving, expanding access, strengthening competition, giving developers greater control and supporting safer, more transparent AV deployment,” it added.
Aug 4, 2026 · via dawan.africa
Why Governing World Models Is AI's Next Big Policy Challenge As artificial intelligence moves beyond language into the physical world through "world models," Stanford researchers warn that policymakers face an even steeper governance challenge than with large language models—and the window to get ahead of the technology is closing fast. If crafting effective regulations for large language models has proven difficult, governing the next wave of AI will be exponentially more complex. A new policy brief from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) marks the first comprehensive examination of how to govern “world models”—AI systems that don't just process language but build working representations of physical environments to predict how they change in response to action. World models are already emerging from research labs into commercial applications, from crisis response systems to autonomous vehicles to robotic manufacturing—with profound implications for everything from privacy to national security. In this conversation, HAI Associate Director and Hoover Senior Fellow Amy Zegart, HAI Founding Director Fei-Fei Li, and HAI Executive Director Russell Wald, three of the brief’s authors, discuss why world models demand urgent policy awareness and what makes governing them fundamentally different from current AI oversight efforts. What exactly is a world model, and why should policymakers care about it now? Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the ability to perceive, reason about, and act in three-dimensional space, and world models are the foundation for achieving it. A world model is an AI system that builds an internal representation of an environment—like a city, a factory floor, or a disaster zone—and uses that representation to predict what happens when you take action in that environment. Unlike a language model that predicts the next word, a world model predicts physical consequences: what happens if you move this object, open that door, or reroute traffic
Aug 4, 2026 · via hai.stanford.edu
Agricultural technology is advancing faster than many farm insurance products have kept pace with and Allianz Australia says its redesigned farm pack is a direct response to that gap. "There's a change in the types of technology that farms are using and so this is making sure our covers were able to address those changing needs and equipment," said Julie Mitchell (pictured), chief general manager of commercial and personal injury at Allianz Australia. The list of newly addressed exposures is specific. Drone liability cover has increased from a 2 kilogram to a 25 kilogram threshold, reflecting the shift from small consumer drones to heavier commercial units now used for spraying, mustering and crop monitoring. That shift is already well underway nationally: the Department of Infrastructure estimates around 10% of agricultural businesses in Australia currently use drones to support operations, a figure forecast to climb substantially over the next decade. Electric vehicle charging infrastructure, like wall chargers and cables, is added to the accessories definition. Thermal runaway battery risk, a known EV-specific hazard, is now explicitly addressed under motor vehicle cover. Autonomous vehicles receive their own specific treatment in the revised product. "Autonomous vehicles are explicitly addressed in the policy, with an exclusion when operating in fully autonomous mode without driver intervention," Mitchell said. This distinction matters as more Australian farms trial autonomous tractors and machinery without a driver physically present. For brokers, that exclusion is a critical point to flag to clients experimenting with autonomous equipment: Cover may depend on whether a human remains actively in the loop during operation, not simply on whether the vehicle is present on an insured property. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) data shows the agricultural sector employed around 255,500 people in 2025, under 2% of the national workforce, a
Aug 3, 2026 · via insurancebusinessmag.com
When the first autonomous vehicles moved from the drawing boards to the test tracks, they were envisioned as not having steering wheels, gas pedals, etc. When Google, later Waymo, rolled out its early concept cars, the little eggs on wheels came sans controls. The company pitched a future where senior citizens or physically challenged people could simply get into their self-driving vehicles can get into their personal vehicle, tell it where they needed to go and it would drive them there - and back. However, as time has gone on, more and more critics have asked an important question: What happens is the car runs amok? How will it stop? Shouldn't the passengers be able take control of the car? Now Amazon's robotaxi business, Zoox, just became the first company to win approval from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to deploy its steering wheel-free robotaxis to charge for rides - on a limited basis. NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison told Reuters that Zoox had received clearance to commercially deploy up to 2,500 vehicles in each of the next two years. So we ask today: Do you think driving controls should remain mandatory equipment for autonomous cabs or not - and why? [Images: Zoox] Become a TTAC insider. Get the latest news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by subscribing to our newsletter.
Aug 3, 2026 · via autos.yahoo.com
The rise of the robots: how autonomous vehicles are transforming polar science A robot is cruising beneath Antarctic sea-ice. Another is bolted to the face of a collapsing Greenland glacier. A third is silently counting penguins on a remote, windswept beach. None of them has a human operator nearby. “It’s really cool to be able to whip out my phone here in Cambridge and send commands to a glider that’s doing stuff thousands of miles away in the Antarctic.” Dr Alex Brearley is an oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). He’s one of the growing number of scientists who’re using autonomous vehicles to investigate Earth’s rapidly changing polar environments. Underwater, on the surface and in the air – robots of all shapes and sizes are now gathering information on a scale and with a precision that previous generations of researchers could only dream about. Alex could be there in person in the Antarctic – but doesn’t have to be. Commands are uploaded via the internet and when the robots make the connection, they go about their business. Alex has several gliders on the go at any one time. They’re equipped with a range of sensors to tell him about the ocean’s properties and how it’s behaving. His sleek machines resemble torpedoes and move through the ocean with remarkable efficiency. An oil-filled bladder alters their buoyancy, making them sink and rise, while a moveable battery pack changes the centre of mass to pitch the nose either up or down. A set of small wings then converts that vertical motion into a slow forward glide through the water column. No engine. No propeller. Just physics. Periodic visits to the surface enable positioning fixes via GPS and an opportunity to beam back data to Cambridge, as well as picking up new commands.
Aug 3, 2026 · via bas.ac.uk
Question of the Day: Should Autonomous Vehicles be Required to Have Driving Controls? When the first autonomous vehicles moved from the drawing boards to the test tracks, they were envisioned as not having steering wheels, gas pedals, etc. When Google, later Waymo, rolled out its early concept cars, the little eggs on wheels came sans controls. The company pitched a future where senior citizens or physically challenged people could simply get into their self-driving vehicles can get into their personal vehicle, tell it where they needed to go and it would drive them there — and back. However, as time has gone on, more and more critics have asked an important question: What happens is the car runs amok? How will it stop? Shouldn’t the passengers be able take control of the car? Now Amazon’s robotaxi business, Zoox, just became the first company to win approval from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to deploy its steering wheel-free robotaxis to charge for rides — on a limited basis. NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison told Reuters that Zoox had received clearance to commercially deploy up to 2,500 vehicles in each of the next two years. So we ask today: Do you think driving controls should remain mandatory equipment for autonomous cabs or not — and why? [Images: Zoox] Become a TTAC insider. Get the latest news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by subscribing to our newsletter. Michael Strong has spent more than 25 years writing about the automotive industry. A Detroit-area native, he’s written about everything from local car shows to product reviews to financial news. Currently he writes and edits for a variety of national and local publications. He’s also a longtime member of the Automotive Press Association and the International Motor
Aug 3, 2026 · via thetruthaboutcars.com
Newswise — An unmanned boat motors toward a beach and drops off an armed robot, which then walks itself toward a target. It sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie, but Ukraine tested this high-tech combat tactic in mid-July on a Russian-occupied spit of land, marking the first-ever robotic amphibious beach assault. What does that mean for the future of drone and robotic warfare? Virginia Tech aerospace and ocean engineering experts Craig Woolsey and Mingi Jeong share takeaways about the importance of autonomous research and workforce development in national security. We’re seeing new kinds of interconnected robots “What makes this example in Ukraine unique is not simply that an uncrewed boat reached its destination, but that it deployed a different type of robotic system to perform a follow-on task,” Jeong said. “As the technology evolves, we will likely see increasingly capable teams of heterogeneous robots combining aerial, surface, underwater, and ground platforms,” he added. “Because of that, field reliability, cybersecurity, and trustworthy decision-making will become increasingly important.” Autonomous sea transportation is on the rise “More than 80 percent of global trade by volume is transported by sea, and autonomous technologies could contribute to safer and more efficient maritime transportation,” Jeong said. “Robotic capabilities can also support environmental monitoring, ecosystem assessment, infrastructure inspection, aquaculture, oil-spill response, search-and-rescue missions, and more.” Autonomous technologies will be everywhere Woolsey said the evolution of autonomous vehicles is happening quickly and across domains. The biggest advances aren't just in robotics,” he said. “They're coming from improvements in batteries, computing, sensors, cameras, and communications, largely driven by consumer electronics. Together, those technologies are making autonomous systems far more capable than they were even a decade ago." Woolsey added, “Virginia Tech is focused on the boundaries between air, land, sea, and space, which is where the
Aug 3, 2026 · via newswise.com
Waymo robotaxis found to crash 68% less often than human drivers See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Waymo’s robotaxis are now safer than human drivers, according to an analysis of data from self-driving juggernaut Waymo — in spite of headlines about automated vehicles causing chaos on some city streets. The Alphabet subsidiary’s driverless cars crash 68% less often than human drivers, according to a recently published study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit focused on reducing deaths, injuries and property damage from vehicle crashes. The study indicates the self-driving tech – which has long been touted as a game-changer as more than 1 million people die each year in traffic accidents – has been making strides. The study compared the rate at which Waymo-run and human-operated vehicles were involved in crashes in Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Austin. Waymo’s rate was 76% lower than the human rate in Phoenix, 71% lower in LA and 35% lower in San Francisco. Humans bested Waymos by 4% in Austin. Waymo leads the autonomous ride-hailing market with 577 registered driverless vehicles and roughly 500,000 paid rides each week across 10 cities. The high safety marks for Waymo come after incidents like a number of Waymos getting clogged on San Francisco streets over the summer, leaving thousands to hoof it home on foot during a disastrous July Fourth celebration. One Waymo appeared to drive directly through an exploding firework while its passengers watched in horror. The Post has sought comment from Waymo. Comparing robot-car accident data with that of human drivers isn’t a perfect match and the study had to account for numerous data challenges, the authors wrote. The study’s sample was restricted to crashes that a person would typically report
Aug 3, 2026 · via nypost.com
Federal regulators are clearing the way for robotaxis to operate without manual controls like steering wheels or, eventually, even brake pedals as the rules start to catch up to the evolving technology. Amazon’s fully autonomous Zoox vehicles received approval Thursday to begin charging customers for rides in the specially designed cars featuring four inward-facing seats once they secure state and local approval. Zoox has already been offering free rides in Las Vegas and San Francisco since last year. At least a couple of people were waiting at most stops Thursday afternoon for rides up and down the Vegas strip aboard one of the distinctive boxy-shaped vehicles. “It’s kind of scary at first, but when I just got used to it, it’s really cool and chilling. I really liked the music and how you can adjust the temperature,” Chloe Huu from Ann Arbor, Michigan, said after taking a ride in a Zoox Thursday. But the projected wait time for the ride kept changing, which made it hard to plan. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also proposed a rule last month to allow robotaxis to operate without brake pedals, but that proposal is still pending. Administrator Jonathan Morrison said his agency wants to update the regulations to fit these fully autonomous vehicles while still acting as the “cop on the beat to make sure that this is being done right.” Most vehicle safety regulations were written decades ago, with the assumption that there would be a human driver behind the wheel. But Morrison said that things like steering wheels, windshield wipers and side-view mirrors aren’t really needed in an autonomous vehicle. “If you’re going to be developing a standard in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, nobody at that time had this imagination, nobody had a crystal ball that you might have technologies
Aug 3, 2026 · via carriermanagement.com
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WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, March 31, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Cities worldwide are accelerating efforts to reduce emissions, creating new opportunities for shared-mobility operators to build smarter, lower-carbon fleets. As municipal governments and energy providers collaborate to develop more integrated infrastructure, evolving regulatory frameworks and stricter emissions standards are helping establish a clearer pathway for electrified mobility systems. For carsharing and shared-mobility operators, these developments represent more than a sustainability milestone—they enable the creation of transportation systems that are more efficient, predictable and scalable. Technology is playing a critical role in further reducing the environmental footprint of shared fleets. Intelligent fleet-management platforms are increasingly being used to ensure that vehicles are deployed where and when they are needed most. By predicting demand patterns and strategically positioning vehicles in advance, these systems minimize idle time, increase utilization rates and reduce the overall number of vehicles required to meet demand. Data analytics and artificial intelligence are significantly enhancing these capabilities. Advanced algorithms analyze patterns such as peak commuting hours, weather conditions and major local events to predict where vehicles are most likely to be requested in the near term. This predictive capability allows operators to reposition vehicles proactively, increasing efficiency across the network. The result is a system where vehicles spend more time in use and less time parked, maximizing the value of each vehicle while shrinking the environmental footprint of the entire fleet. Over time, the integration of connected vehicles, AI-driven optimization and autonomous mobility technologies is expected to create a more fluid and resource-efficient carsharing ecosystem. Autonomous Driving and the Next Chapter of Shared Mobility The mobility sector is now entering a new phase shaped by automation, evolving regulations and next-generation infrastructure. While today’s shared-mobility platforms have expanded rapidly, many still face operational challenges including uneven vehicle distribution, limited availability and
Aug 3, 2026 · via nwfdailynews.com
News Tesla Full Self-Driving insurance program with heavy discount expands Lemonade has expanded its innovative Autonomous Car insurance program to Tennessee, giving Tesla owners in the state a substantial discount on Full Self-Driving (FSD) miles. Announced on August 3, the product offers 50 percent off every mile driven with FSD activated, positioning the digital insurer as a leader in pricing insurance around autonomous technology. The program, marketed as Lemonade Autonomous Car insurance, uses a direct connection via Tesla’s Fleet API (with customer permission) to automatically distinguish FSD-engaged miles from manual driving. Policyholders pay a low base rate when the vehicle is stationary and a few cents per mile when moving, with the 50 percent reduction applied specifically to FSD miles. If you’re driving a Tesla in Tennessee, FSD miles now cost 50% less to insure with Lemonade. Autonomous Car is now live in TN.https://t.co/4CDTuhyORi pic.twitter.com/QZk4LBIs6f — Lemonade (@Lemonade_Inc) August 3, 2026 Coverage includes standard protections such as liability, collision, comprehensive, roadside assistance, and Tesla-specific benefits like access to certified repair shops and emergency crash services. Eligible vehicles require Hardware 4, as well as recent firmware. Lemonade first unveiled the product on January 21 of this year, describing it as a first-of-its-kind offering designed for self-driving cars, starting with Tesla FSD. It began rolling out in Arizona on January 26, followed by Oregon about a month later. Subsequent expansions brought it to Indiana in early June 2026 and Colorado later that month. Tennessee marks the fifth state. Tesla Full Self-Driving gets outrageous insurance offer with insanely cheap rates The discount rests on Lemonade’s strong belief in the safety of Tesla’s FSD system. The company cites Tesla’s data showing that FSD-driven miles are twice as safe as those driven manually, or associated with roughly a 50 percent crash reduction. Lemonade Co-founder and
Aug 3, 2026 · via teslarati.com