Musk pushes regulatory limits with Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi service US regulators limit commercial deployment of vehicles that do not adhere to decades-old safety standards that were written for human-driven vehicles [SAN FRANCISCO] Tesla’s race to deploy Cybercab robotaxis will put regulatory limits to the test as the electric vehicle maker begins paid rides in the sporty, two-seaters that run without a steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. Just hours after an event in downtown Austin, Texas, to mark the rollout, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it opened an audit of about 1,000 Cybercab vehicles to assess how Tesla determined the cars comply with federal vehicle-safety regulations. US regulators limit commercial deployment of vehicles that do not adhere to decades-old federal safety standards that were written for human-driven vehicles and require manual controls. But industry experts said regulatory gray areas and Elon Musk’s litigious track record could give Tesla a chance to force the Cybercab into broad use anyway. Amid a frenzy of fans and social media influencers in downtown Austin, Texas, Cybercabs were added to Tesla’s robotaxi fleet that now operates its best-selling Model Y SUVs. Tesla said Cybercab rides were open to everyone and executives described pricing plans. The golden, butterfly-door Cybercab embodies Musk’s strategy of betting the company on self-driving software and robotics. That bet has pushed its stock valuation to US$1.4 trillion, more than the top several global automakers combined. Unlike most other countries, where new vehicle models and technology need regulatory clearance ahead of launch, automakers in the US can deploy them on the public roads by self-certifying that they meet federal standards. “I don’t think there is a reasonable interpretation that can be made to suggest that the Cybercab can comply with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards,” said Michael Brooks, executive director of
Sep 5, 2026 · via businesstimes.com.sg
For the first time, an autonomous EV might show up if you order an Uber in London. Uber and UK autonomous-driving startup Wayve have launched what they say is Britain’s first autonomous ride-hailing service. As of yesterday, riders who request an UberX, Uber Electric, or Uber Comfort may be matched with a Mustang Mach-E fitted with the Wayve AI Driver. The autonomous ride doesn’t cost extra, and passengers can accept it or switch to a regular Uber before the car arrives. The service covers trips across London, excluding airports. But this isn’t a fully driverless robotaxi service yet. There is still a trained, Transport for London-licensed driver behind the wheel, ready to take over if needed. More than 140,000 Londoners have already opted in through the Trip Preferences section of the Uber app, according to the companies. Riders use the app to unlock the Mach-E and start their trip, while screens inside show the car’s planned route and support 64 languages. This is the first time members of the public can ride in a car using the Wayve AI Driver. The London-based company has been training its technology on the capital’s roads since 2018. Wayve says its AI learns from driving data and is designed to adapt to different cities, vehicles, and sensor setups. The Mustang Mach-Es are fitted with surround sensors and Wayve’s software. Uber and Wayve haven’t said exactly how many cars are in the initial fleet, describing it only as a “small number.” The London launch is part of Uber’s investment in Wayve and a deal to put Wayve-powered vehicles on the Uber network in 12 global markets. Nissan Leafs running Wayve’s AI on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion hardware are also due to join Uber, starting in Tokyo later this year. The launch comes as Britain prepares to
Sep 5, 2026 · via electrek.co
By Stephen Harber, content strategist, GM Talent Marketing COPY: For John Kaychi, Senior Group Product Manager for Automated Driving at GM, the future of driving will be defined not only by technical progress, but by whether customers are ready to trust it. At GM, he leads the product team working on eyes-off driving and how customers experience it. GMâs next major step in automated driving is planned to launch in 2028 beginning with the Cadillac ESCALADE IQ. âYou can have the best technology in the world,â John says. âBut if customers donât trust it, it wonât stick.â That perspective has shaped Johnâs career across startups, robotaxi development and now GM, where the focus is on turning advances in automated driving into safe, scalable customer experiences. He sees the AV industry evolving in three waves: Ridesharing changed behaviors. Robotaxis paved the way for autonomy. Retail, he believes, is where the industry will be tested at scale and has the ability to deliver the biggest customer benefit. âThatâs the edge weâre standing at today,â John says. âThe technology is better understood. Hardware is approaching commoditization. The retail market is ready. True autonomy isnât here yet, but GM is uniquely positioned to lead this next chapter, bringing automated driving to customers at scale.â Transitioning from driverless demos to a mass-production retail product raises the bar: a controlled demonstration can show technical capability, while a customer product is designed to build confidence through consistent, validated performance over time. Caption: John Kaychi helps put the pieces together for GMâs next step in automated driving, with a focus on safety, scale, and customer trust. For John, two defining pillars anchor the work ahead: data and trust. To prepare for real-world driving across the unforgiving "long tail"âinclement weather shifts, sudden road changes, and complex human traffic behaviorâGMâs
Sep 5, 2026 · via news.gm.com
Could San Francisco See July 4 Crowds for Fleet Week? City Leaders Say Not Exactly Memories of the traffic meltdown and bathroom shortages that defined this year’s July 4 fireworks show on the Golden Gate Bridge loom over the planning for Fleet Week, one of San Francisco’s marquee events, which has historically drawn tens of thousands of people to the city. Stephen Sherrill, a San Francisco supervisor who represents the Marina District, where the October airshow will take place, has raised concerns that city departments still lack an official crowd-size estimate, which typically comes from the San Francisco Fleet Week Association, the event’s sponsor. “ Crowd size has been the flaw in planning over the past year, and when crowd size is mixed with a lack of time around preparation, we end up with negative outcomes,” Sherrill said, addressing reporters Thursday. Lewis Loeven, executive director of the San Francisco Fleet Week Association, said he expected attendance to be similar to that of 2024 — an estimated 7,500 people at peak times — and that he would release the 2026 figures at “a later date.” Peak crowd estimates for Fleet Week have varied dramatically in recent years, according to the city’s Department of Emergency Management. Fleet Week 2025 saw around 2,000 spectators at its peak, as the show was stymied by a government shutdown, preventing the participation of any U.S. military outfits, including the famed Blue Angels. The U.S. Navy’s annual weeklong visit to San Francisco, which has brought boat tours and a chance to meet military sailors and pilots to the city for decades, is “extremely well run,” Sherrill emphasized, but he said he called Thursday’s hearing to make sure “excellent stays excellent.” The shortcomings of the city’s Fourth of July celebration remain fresh. That night, an estimated 100,000 people
Sep 5, 2026 · via kqed.org
Austin's streets became home to a fleet of gold-colored Tesla $TSLA Cybercabs Thursday, as the company debuted its fully autonomous vehicle — one that offers passengers no steering wheel or brake pedals and no means of taking control, according to The Associated Press.
The invitation-only launch came as Tesla CEO Elon Musk works to establish the company's autonomous vehicle service against established rival Waymo. According to monitoring site RobotaxiTracker, Waymo's driverless fleet spans 14 cities with more than 4,000 vehicles, dwarfing Tesla's count of just over 200 vehicles without safety drivers operating across six cities in Texas and Florida, the AP reported.
Sep 5, 2026 · via qz.com
Tesla (TSLA) Stock Trades Down, Here Is Why What Happened? Shares of electric vehicle pioneer Tesla TSLA fell 6% in the afternoon session after U.S. safety regulators said they were evaluating the rollout of the company's new Cybercab, compounding a sell-the-news reaction to a launch event. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told Reuters it is in contact with Tesla regarding the two-seater autonomous vehicle, which the company just launched for ride-hailing in limited areas of Austin, Texas. The regulatory scrutiny centers on the Cybercab's design, which lacks the steering wheels, pedals, and mirrors generally required under federal auto safety standards.The probe immediately followed an invite-only evening event that frustrated retail investors. Tesla declined to publicly livestream the showcase, fueling fears that the near-term commercial impact of the robotaxi network was already fully priced into the stock's recent run-up. What Is The Market Telling Us Tesla’s shares are quite volatile and have had 18 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business. The previous big move we wrote about was about 23 hours ago when the stock gained 6.7% on the news that sentiment improved ahead of a highly anticipated post-market launch event at Gigafactory Texas, where the automaker plans to host the first public riders for its steering-wheel-free Cybercab robotaxi. Tesla teased the invitation-only event in Austin, Texas, on X with "no steering wheel, no pedals" for the purpose-built two-seater, CNBC reported. CEO Elon Musk pointed to the Cybercab's cost advantage over Waymo, noting on X that a camera-only autonomous system is cheaper to mass-produce than sensor-laden alternatives, according to The Verge. Texas Department of Motor Vehicles records showed Tesla had 45 Cybercabs registered for
Sep 5, 2026 · via tradingview.com
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday opened an investigation into whether 1,000 Tesla Cybercab vehicles were properly certified. The auto safety regulator is examining the process and technical data the EV maker relied on to claim compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standards. The probe comes after Tesla on Thursday began commercial deployment of a small number of the two-seater Cybercabs in Austin, Texas, and said it planned to gradually expand the service to additional vehicles and locations. NHTSA said the Cybercab lacks permanently attached conventional manual controls, including a steering wheel, brake pedal, accelerator pedal and mirrors. The agency said it would examine the basis for Tesla’s certification of the vehicles and related issues, including the extent to which the company determined that certain Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards were not applicable to the vehicle. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The EV maker had 420 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas as of Friday morning, according to state records, including 45 Cybercab vehicles. In June, the agency proposed to end a government requirement for manual brake pedals in self-driving vehicles, a move that would make it easier to deploy such vehicles on U.S. roads. It has proposed other changes to federal safety standards to allow AVs to avoid needing additional human driver equipment. Under existing law, fully self-driving vehicles do not need NHTSA approval if they have required human controls, like steering wheels, brake pedals or mirrors. NHTSA has authority to grant petitions to allow up to 2,500 vehicles per manufacturer yearly to operate on U.S. roads without required human controls. In July, NHTSA approved a petition for Amazon’s Zoox unit for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis, a first for the autonomous ride industry. (Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in
Sep 5, 2026 · via carriermanagement.com
- Tesla is carrying public riders in Austin in a car with no steering wheel or pedals. - NHTSA is evaluating the operation, and federal caps limit how fast the Cybercab can scale. - Cybercabs have turned up near Miami and outside Philadelphia, where Tesla runs no Robotaxi service. Tesla began offering rides to the public in its two-seater Cybercab in parts of Austin, Texas, on Thursday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is evaluating the rollout, as the vehicle lacks a steering wheel, pedals, or mirrors, all features that federal standards typically require. Tesla promoted the Thursday rollout for weeks as an exclusive Cybercab launch event, drawing investors and fans to Austin, but, according to attendees, Tesla CEO Elon Musk skipped the event. What Tesla launched in Austin According to an update to Tesla’s robotaxi website, rides are available only in some parts of Austin. The company did not say when it would begin charging fares. Executives at the event described plans for dynamic pricing that rises with demand, while promising “a first-class experience at coach price.” Texas records showed 45 Cybercabs among the 420 autonomous vehicles Tesla has registered in the state. Waymo, the current U.S. leader in driverless ride-hailing, has 988 registered in Texas. Musk has promised imminent driverless Teslas for years, including at a Cybercab unveiling in October 2024 at a Los Angeles-area movie studio. The rollout has fallen short of those targets, and analysts have flagged slower-than-expected growth in recent months. Safety regulators taking notice Federal safety standards typically require human controls, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration signaled its interest in the Austin operation. “NHTSA is in contact with Tesla and is evaluating the situation,” a spokesperson told Reuters, declining to elaborate. The agency has looked at the Austin service before, with
Sep 5, 2026 · via cbtnews.com
Aric Sleeper here, thinking about the past and future of transportation after checking out the Indy Autonomous Challenge at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on Thursday, Sept. 3. The challenge brings together university students from a slew of academic institutions and the private sector to ultimately advance autonomous vehicle technology and build a workforce for the future, with the Thursday race bringing together teams from Caltech, UC Berkeley, Purdue University, Indiana University, Michigan State University, Auburn University, University of Virginia, University of Modena and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. “This is a research and development competition,” says Paul Mitchell, founder and CEO of the Indy Autonomous Challenge. “The teams develop software to pilot these fully autonomous IndyCars. Our organization is based in Indiana and we built 10 of these autonomous racecars and we’ve been running them now for more than five years.” Mitchell explained that the self-governing vehicles have historically run alone on oval tracks and they were performing a “passing competition" on the course at Laguna Seca for the first time. “It’s very exciting,” Mitchell says. “It’s a new form of motorsport but the real goal of this is to advance the technology of autonomous cars—to see how they can handle really challenging driving situations. If you can run a racecar at 170 miles per hour and make passes, you can probably run an autonomous car at 180 miles per hour.” The event was attended by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, Seval Oz, who has a long track record of working with autonomous vehicles, having served as Senior Business Development and Global Partnerships Lead at Google [X]’s Self-Driving Car Program, which ultimately became Waymo. “I’m thrilled to be a part of this competition and see this innovative technology actually be tested
Sep 5, 2026 · via montereycountynow.com
Watch: BBC travels in self-driving Uber around London Customers in London can now travel in the UK's first robotaxis as Uber launches its self-driving minicab on Thursday - the company is the first to launch the service. Initially, it only has 15 autonomous vehicles with a licence to operate in the city, and each one must have a human safety driver behind the wheel ready to take control if anything goes wrong. At the moment, the UK fare for a robotaxi ride will be the same fare as a standard UberX, Uber Electric, or Uber Comfort journey, with upfront fares shown in the app. The BBC's Zoe Kleinman was the first British journalist to hail a self-driving Uber in London - here's how the ride went. Related topics - Driverless carsUpdates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage. - LondonUpdates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage. - UberUpdates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage. - TaxisUpdates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage.
Sep 4, 2026 · via bbc.co.uk
Tesla slides as underwhelming Cybercab launch draws U.S. probe Tesla Inc. shares tumbled the most in six weeks after a formal rollout of the Cybercab driverless car left investors underwhelmed and drew fresh scrutiny from U.S. auto regulators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday opened a probe into the process and technical data Tesla relied on when the company self-certified the vehicles — which have no steering wheels or foot pedals — as compliant with all federal safety standards. The agency conducts investigations when “certified vehicles appear to not adhere to these requirements,” it said in a statement. The decision underscored the uncertain path forward for the unorthodox vehicle, which lacks certain driver controls that are typically required by federal standards. The regulatory hurdles are among the many unknowns surrounding the vehicle, alongside technological and market-readiness questions. The Cybercab, which has been in testing in multiple U.S. cities in recent months, is seen as a key piece of Tesla’s plan to evolve beyond a maker of electric vehicles into a pioneer of artificial intelligence products. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has pitched Cybercab as the eventual backbone of a vast robotaxi fleet reaching most of the U.S., vowing to deploy thousands of the cars. Against that backdrop, the company’s introduction of the vehicle into passenger service late Thursday in Austin was uncharacteristically low-key, with no livestream or media access. The automaker opened a Cybercab-specific webpage earlier in the day and posted on social media that public rides would begin Friday evening. The “Cybercab event was largely a bust,” Gary Black, co-founder of Future Fund Advisors, wrote on X. “The launch offered little detail and key questions remained unanswered.” Tesla shares fell 5.92% Friday afternoon in New York, the biggest intraday since July 23. Details of the closed-door launch
Sep 4, 2026 · via spokesman.com
Tesla’s Autonomous Cybercab Service is GO! You can only hail the golden, self-driving ‘cabs a specific Texas city, but it’s a start... Buried in the deluge of tech announcements at Tesla’s “Cybercab Launch Day” rollout of its newest product, a steering-wheel free, two seat autonomous taxi, was the news that the service will be available to paying customers in Austin, Texas, as of Friday, September 4th, at 5pm local time. Prior to this, Cybercab rides were limited to Tesla employees during several months of testing around Austin and other cities in Texas and California. But now, the general public in Austin will be available to hail a Cybercab, via Tesla’s Robotaxi mobile phone app. There are a few catches however; Robotaxi service is limited to a discrete area encompassing downtown Austin. There is also no guarantee you will be able to get a Cybercab when you request a ride through the Robotaxi app. Per the San Antonio Express, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has registered 420 robotaxis in Texas of which 375 are modified Model Ys and 45 are CyberCabs. How much will a Cybercab ride cost? We don’t know yet but the answer seems to be, it will vary. “We also use dynamic pricing to balance supply and demand. As we add more and more CyberCabs to our network, our average wait times are going to get lower and lower and lower, largely due to dynamic pricing. And our pricing is going to be very competitive,” said Silvio Brugada, head vehicle software for CyberCab. If you’re in Austin and interested in going for an autonomous ride in a Cybercab, you may want to act quickly, as The Wall Street Journal just reported that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a probe into the Cybercab to
Sep 4, 2026 · via motortrend.com
Live-Learning Lab rendering provided by CARTA A $25 million federal grant awarded to Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) will help bring a new generation of transportation technology to downtown Chattanooga. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will play a central role in research, education and workforce development. CARTA announced at a press conference that it received the funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant program. The award will support the replacement of its downtown electric shuttles with autonomous vehicles, along with the infrastructure needed to operate them. The project will also create an autonomous vehicle command center and the Live-Learning Lab at CARTA’s Shuttle Park South, where UTC students and faculty will be able to study the technology as it operates on Chattanooga streets. The project will add to years of research by UTC’s Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP). “This project gives us an opportunity to really build on that foundation and have our faculty and students conduct research, develop new intellectual property, move that IP toward commercialization,” Chancellor Lori Bruce said at the press conference. Bruce shared that the lab will allow students and faculty to “conduct their research, do R&D, take courses, and have real-time hands-on activities.” Dr. Mina Sartipi, UTC interim vice chancellor for research and founding director of CUIP, said the project will help researchers take their work into an operating autonomous transit system. “Rather than studying individual technologies in isolation, we will be able to work alongside an operational autonomous transit system and explore how vehicles, roadway infrastructure, traffic signals, communications systems and transportation operations can work together as one connected ecosystem,” Sartipi said. A major part of that work will focus on connectivity. Autonomous vehicles use cameras and sensors to understand their surroundings,
Sep 4, 2026 · via blog.utc.edu
Tesla has unveiled its new Cybercab, a fully autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, at a private event in Austin on Thursday (September 3). This marks a significant step for the electric vehicle manufacturer as it expands its robotaxi fleet. The Cybercab is currently operating in limited areas of Austin, with plans for broader deployment in the future. The Cybercab, a two-seat electric vehicle, relies entirely on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software. It represents a bold move by Tesla to push the boundaries of autonomous vehicle technology. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, emphasized the vehicle's futuristic design and functionality, stating, "No steering wheel, no pedals," in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. The launch event was invitation-only, showcasing the vehicle to select guests and fans. Tesla's stock rose more than 5% before the event, reflecting investor optimism about the Cybercab's potential impact on the company's autonomous vehicle ride service, which currently operates in parts of Texas and Florida. However, the rollout faces challenges, as Tesla must demonstrate that its camera-only system can safely navigate streets and avoid pedestrians, unlike competitors like Waymo and Zoox, which use additional technologies such as lidar and radar. Despite the technological advancements, public acceptance remains a hurdle. A Pew Research Center survey found that 70% of U.S. adults are uncomfortable with the idea of riding in a driverless car. Tesla is betting on its technology and the appeal of its brand to overcome these concerns. The Cybercab's launch comes as Tesla aims to expand its unsupervised robotaxi fleet, which has grown significantly in recent months. According to a Yahoo Finance report, Tesla has registered around 40 additional Cybercabs for commercial operation in Texas. The company plans to introduce the service in other cities, including Houston and Dallas, as it seeks to compete with
Sep 4, 2026 · via kfiam640.iheart.com
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Sep 4, 2026 · via dallasnews.com
Tesla’s private Cybercab event has come and gone, and it was very different from the large, loud, livestreamed events the company usually puts on — an odd choice for the launch of a product CEO Elon Musk has spent years building toward. In fact, it doesn’t even appear that Musk spoke at the event, the keynote of which, by all accounts, only lasted around 15 minutes. The promise of the Cybercab is massive: a fully autonomous vehicle that uses only cameras and AI to drive itself, all for much less than a Waymo. But Tesla scattered a lot of the details. Some are in PDFs the company released on Thursday, as well as in updated terms of service in its “Robotaxi” app. The rest were left for a select few die-hard fans to disseminate online. The company now has to prove that these vehicles are safe — to the public, to local governments, and to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has already opened an investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab rollout. In the meantime, here are some of the most interesting new details that caught our attention: No Cybercab for kiddos One of the more interesting details in the Cybercab fine print is that Tesla does not allow minors under the age of 13 to ride in the vehicle “at this time.” Minors between the ages of 8 and 17 are allowed to ride in Tesla’s “Robotaxi” Model Y SUVs, and Tesla does have guidelines on how to use child seats in both vehicles. Curiously, the Cybercab does not have the standard LATCH anchors for child seats. Instead, they can only be attached using the seat belt. Tesla executives, including Musk, have talked a lot about how much they focus on taking out unnecessary parts to cut down on costs,
Sep 4, 2026 · via techcrunch.com
Uber has launched supervised autonomous rides in London, marking the first time passengers in the UK can request an autonomous trip through a major ride-hailing platform. The new service is powered by British autonomous driving company Wayve and uses all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles equipped with the company’s Wayve AI Driver technology. The initial rollout is limited to a small fleet, with expansion planned as demand, technology readiness and regulations develop. For now, the vehicles still have a trained, TfL-licensed private hire driver behind the wheel to monitor the autonomous system and take control when necessary. How Uber’s autonomous rides work London passengers requesting an UberX, Uber Electric or Uber Comfort ride may be matched with a Wayve-powered autonomous Mustang Mach-E at no additional cost. The vehicle is not guaranteed to be autonomous, however, and riders can choose to switch to a conventional ride before the vehicle arrives. Uber customers who want to increase their chances of getting an autonomous vehicle can opt in through the Trip Preferences section of the Uber app. More than 140,000 London users had already opted in ahead of the launch. Once a Wayve-equipped Mustang Mach-E arrives, passengers can use the Uber app to unlock the doors and start their journey. The autonomous vehicles can operate throughout London, with airports excluded from the initial service area. An interactive screen inside the Mustang Mach-E provides information about the journey, including the vehicle’s planned route. The system supports 64 languages, giving passengers additional information about what the vehicle is doing during the trip. Ford Mustang Mach-E becomes London’s autonomous taxi The electric Ford Mustang Mach-E serves as the platform for Wayve’s first public autonomous ride service in the UK. Wayve has fitted the vehicles with its autonomous driving hardware and software, including a surround-sensor system and radar.
Sep 4, 2026 · via electriccarsreport.com
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Sep 4, 2026 · via youtube.com
Tesla added its two-door, steering-wheel-free Cybercab to its robotaxi network on Thursday, offering its first rides to the public in Austin as the company races to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service. At an invite-only event in downtown Austin, Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's VP of AI, announced that the Cybercab was officially added to the company's public robotaxi fleet, which, up until now, consisted only of Tesla Model Ys. "You can go outside, take rides," he said, closing out the Thursday keynote. "Anyone can take rides. It's open to the entire public." Tesla didn't provide details on the initial size of the public Cybercab fleet. Records from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles show that Tesla has registered 45 Cybercabs as of Thursday. The Cybercab is Tesla's purpose-built robotaxi that can fit two passengers. Like Amazon's Zoox, the Cybercab is not built with a steering wheel or pedal. Videos posted online by Tesla influencers and content creators who were invited to the Austin event showed that the Cybercab can be hailed through the Robotaxi app. In a video posted by David Moss, an autonomous-vehicle content creator, Robotaxi users could open the car's butterfly doors through the app. After the riders enter the car, the doors closed automatically, Moss said in the video. The launch comes nearly two years after Tesla first unveiled the Cybercab at its "We, Robot" event in Burbank, California. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has pitched the vehicle as the company's answer to a low-cost robotaxi that can be produced at scale. Musk has said that the car will cost under $30,000. Part of Tesla's goal is to allow consumers to buy a Cybercab while also integrating it into the Robotaxi fleet. Ahead of the event on Thursday, Tesla put up an online interest form where people can indicate their
Sep 4, 2026 · via businessinsider.com
Tech company Hexagon launches autonomous vehicle intervention system at global scale Nasdaq-listed measurement technology company Hexagon has announced the global launch of its next-generation Vehicle Intervention System (VIS), which it claims is an advanced safety solution designed to help surface mining operations prevent collisions before they occur. The new system represents the latest evolution of Hexagon’s proven VIS platform, extending autonomous intervention capabilities and expanding protection across critical mining scenarios. As an Earthmoving Equipment Safety Round Table Level 9 vehicle intervention system, VIS can automatically take control of a machine in defined high-risk situations when safety thresholds are breached, helping to prevent incidents, protect personnel, and support operational continuity. The launch follows the system's successful completion of the University of Pretoria's independent Technology Readiness Level 4 validation programme, making it the first openpit Level 9 solution to achieve this milestone. Built on Hexagon's Collision Avoidance System and integrated safety portfolio, VIS provides a final layer of protection when advisory controls alone are insufficient. The system can automatically inhibit propulsion, apply retardation or braking, enforce safe following distances, manage overspeed conditions, including on ramps, and bring a vehicle to a safe state if a critical system fault is detected. Its key capabilities include collision prevention, which comprises autonomously intervening to help prevent vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-person, and vehicle-to-obstacle collisions; rule enforcement; safer operation support by enforcing speed limits and following-distance requirements; and fail-safe protection through continuous monitoring of system health and placing vehicles in a safe state if a critical fault is detected. Notably, the system supports a broad range of vehicle types and manufacturers without original equipment manufacturer lock-in. “Surface mining operators continue to face complex safety challenges in dynamic environments where visibility, fatigue, environmental conditions, and human factors can contribute to risk. “When milliseconds matter, mines need technology that can act
Sep 4, 2026 · via miningweekly.com