Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo today announced the next phase of their autonomous driving collaboration, in pursuit of a world with safer streets and freedom of movement for all.
This partnership marks a major milestone in the expansion of Japan’s first fully autonomous ride-hailing service using high-volume, domestically manufactured vehicles.
Toyota and Waymo will continue to explore the future of autonomous driving technology for personally owned Toyota vehicles.
“We are deeply grateful that Waymo, which helped pioneer fully autonomous driving technology, has chosen Toyota as its partner,” said Hiroki Nakajima, member of the board of directors and executive vice president of Toyota.
“Safety technology makes the biggest difference when it reaches as many people as possible.
Oct 30, 2026 · via cleantechnica.com
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Oct 29, 2026 · via statesman.com
Users of Tesla Robotaxi are reporting routing issues with the autonomous ride-hailing provider as the company continues to expand its service area in Texas.
"Houston, we have liftoff," an X post from the Tesla Robotaxi account said.
"Bigger service area now live."
The new Houston service area represents an estimated additional 229 square miles, RobotaxiTracker, a third-party website that tracks autonomous-vehicle progress in the US, reported.
In recent weeks, Tesla has been working to scale up its robotaxi service, following the deployment of its purpose-built, two-door Cybercab on public roads in September.
Oct 29, 2026 · via businessinsider.com
South Bay riders will soon have another option for getting around as Waymo expands its driverless ride-hailing service down the coast to Torrance.
The company said the Los Angeles expansion is part of a rollout adding nearly 250 square miles of coverage across five markets over the next week.
Waymo's updated map shows the service area extending through Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach to Torrance.
Waymo launched its commercial ride-hailing service, Waymo One, in the Phoenix area in 2018.
Waymo's current service page says its Los Angeles service area runs from Santa Monica to Echo Park and south to Inglewood.
Oct 29, 2026 · via nbclosangeles.com
Introduction: The Problem Is Larger Than the Vehicle The development of autonomous vehicles has largely focused on making the individual vehicle more intelligent. Better cameras, better radar, better lidar, larger neural networks, better maps, more training data, and increasingly sophisticated systems for interpreting the environment around the vehicle have collectively pushed autonomous driving substantially forward. There is, however, a more fundamental architectural problem that additional compute alone cannot solve: the modern autonomous vehicle is still, for the most part, attempting to understand a shared environment from an individual perspective. A vehicle observes the world around it, attempts to identify what those observations represent, predicts what the objects it can observe are likely to do, and then determines how it should respond. In many ways, we have recreated the fundamental limitations of a human driver inside a substantially more capable computational system. The machine may have cameras facing in every direction. It may have radar, lidar, ultrasonic sensors, GPS, high-definition maps, and neural networks capable of processing enormous quantities of information in real time. It may react considerably faster than a person. It is nevertheless primarily reasoning from what that particular vehicle can perceive. This creates an interesting contradiction. Roads are inherently shared environments. Every vehicle, pedestrian, cyclist, traffic signal, construction zone, emergency vehicle, and piece of transportation infrastructure exists within the same physical system. Their actions affect one another continuously. Yet we are attempting to automate this shared environment by creating thousands or millions of independently intelligent participants, each reconstructing approximately the same environment for itself. The alternative is to stop treating autonomous driving exclusively as a vehicle problem. It is an ecosystem problem. How Autonomous Vehicles Generally Work Today Although implementations differ considerably between manufacturers, autonomous driving systems generally follow a recognizable architectural pattern. The vehicle begins with sensors.
Oct 29, 2026 · via hackernoon.com
Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC) and TADA Mobility (Singapore) Pte Ltd will launch a pilot on-demand shared autonomous vehicle (AV) service on Sentosa in early 2027, offering visitors more convenient connections to the island’s beaches, hotels and attractions.
The pilot will begin with two autonomous vehicles developed by autonomous driving technology company WeRide, with the service expected to expand progressively across the island, SDC and TADA said in a joint statement on Thursday.
The pilot builds on Sentosa’s initial autonomous vehicle trial in 2019.
SDC and TADA will conduct further trials to validate routes, booking, boarding and safety procedures before the service begins.
Findings from the pilot will help inform the potential integration of autonomous vehicles into Sentosa’s long-term transport network.
Oct 29, 2026 · via technode.global
Electric automaker Rivian started producing its R2 model in June, and company leadership said on an earnings call Thursday it's already the best-selling Rivian vehicle, outselling both the R1 and delivery vans in the third quarter.
The company produced 19,751 vehicles at its plant in Normal during the third quarter, by far its highest era of production yet.
CEO RJ Scaringe said Rivian is "laying the foundations for a future that we believe will be fully electric, autonomous and AI defined."
Scaringe is excited about the lower "cognitive load" needed to drive an autonomous Rivian and thinks it can drive "huge changes in market share" in the automobile industry.
To help build up its AI capabilities, Rivian acquired Third Dimension AI this month.
Oct 29, 2026 · via wglt.org
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Autonomous vehicles from different companies have been fully operational in Houston for much of this year, and statistics show they've largely done so without any incidents.
Data acquired by the ABC News Data Team shows there were just 21 crashes involving the vehicles in Houston from September 2025 through August 2026.
ABC13 asked Mayor John Whitmire's Office for comment on the current state of the vehicles in Houston.
ABC13 asked the agency for numbers related to the first five months of the law being in effect, but was told to submit a public-records request.
ABC13 asked Whitmire's office whether that could happen in Houston, but we only received the statement above.
Oct 28, 2026 · via abc13.com
Developed under the DARPA RACER program, four autonomous unmanned ground vehicles idled as technicians made final tweaks to cables and software.
“Out here at Fort Knox, we’re looking at how autonomous mobility technology can be paired with payloads to enable new warfighter capabilities.”
“We’ve completed about a five-year program on software development for autonomous mobility to go highspeed off-road in complex environments,” said Gregory.
Fort Knox was chosen for the end-to-end test after a request came from U.S. European Command.
When working with our stakeholders and touchpoints, they had recommended Fort Knox specifically as a representation of the European theater.”
Oct 28, 2026 · via darpa.mil
Thus, it's only right that lawmakers in the United States are prioritizing making autonomous vehicles easy to spot for nearby human drivers.
The NHTSA has brought forward a potential amendment to the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No.
108, which pertains to legal standards for vehicle lights and reflective elements.
Part of this amendment is the idea of having self-driving vehicles bear cyan-colored lights, specifically on the front, sides, and rear.
As noted, there are specific standards set for these cyan lights, dubbed in the FMVSS No.
Oct 28, 2026 · via slashgear.com
The automated rideshare service Waymo is expanding its service in San Diego to include La Jolla, the company announced Tuesday.
The service has now nearly doubled to about 90 square miles, expanding to include Clairemont, University City, and La Jolla.
The autonomous vehicles first launched in San Diego in September.
At the time, the service covered 50 square miles, spanning from Logan Heights to Pacific Beach and from Sunset Cliffs to Normal Heights.
Starting Oct. 14 anyone who downloads the app can request a Waymo ride in these areas.
Oct 28, 2026 · via nbcsandiego.com
The fully autonomous Waymo ride share service is now in Tampa, which means no driver behind the wheel.
We joined her on her seventh Waymo ride to see how the service works for her.
ALSO READ: University of Tampa students recall a Waymo ride gone wrong Once it’s found, she said getting inside isn’t easy.
“Even though that's against the ADA because the person driving it didn't want a dog in their car,” Bridges said.
Waymo’s accessibility initiatives The team has partnered with local organizations through a program called the Waymo Accessibility Network.
Oct 28, 2026 · via wusf.org
Speaking of autonomy, we have autonomous vehicles on the road today — Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla Cybercabs.
If you believe that your driver assistance system is super capable, you are already at risk of complacency — at risk of treating it like it’s an autonomous system.
Our philosophy is: If we’re going to design an autonomous system, we’re going to actually design an autonomous system.
In the same way you put a robotaxi in a bounded region, we will put personally owned autonomous vehicles on a particular road.
AI is cutting vehicle development times, but we’re also seeing hype around factory automation and humanoid robots from companies like Tesla and Rivian.
Oct 27, 2026 · via theverge.com
The latest approvals push the global robotaxi sector closer to a projected US$1 trillion market by 2040 2 -MIN READ2 -MIN Listen Published: 8:00am, 27 Oct 2026Updated: 8:13am, 27 Oct 2026 China has granted new autonomous-driving permission to electric vehicle (EV) maker Xpeng and a mainland joint venture of Volkswagen, intensifying the commercialisation race between China’s autonomous driving firms and US company Tesla.
Xpeng would now be allowed to conduct “demonstration operations” of its Yoyo driverless taxis in the capital city of southern China’s Guangdong province under a licence officially granted recently, the company said on social media on Monday.
The licence, which allows the robotaxis to carry paying passengers, is regarded as a final major test for fleet operators before winning regulatory approval for commercial operations.
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Oct 27, 2026 · via scmp.com
Mary Barra still runs a company deeply involved in manufacturing gas-guzzling SUVs and pickup trucks, but she is increasingly turning to A.I.
assistant that will debut via a software update on the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq, with other properly equipped GM vehicles getting the feature in the months that follow.
Going straight to fully autonomous driving On Oct. 21, GM announced that its planned autonomous highway-driving system would expand beyond the Cadillac Escalade IQ to high-volume SUVs and light-duty pickups.
He continued that GM is not developing Level 3 but aims to move directly to a fully autonomous system that can operate safely without continuous supervision.
may make autonomous vehicle operation increasingly technologically possible, the regulatory environment, legal bounds and performance on real roads still matter before you see a GM vehicle headed to the dry cleaner to pick up someone’s laundry.
Oct 26, 2026 · via observer.com
Legislation to test autonomous vehicles in Illinois may come up again in the November veto session, though the lead sponsor of a pilot bill says there’s still a lot of work to do.
Autonomous vehicles, or AVs, are motor vehicles that have an automated driving system.
But state Rep. Kam Buckner has called for a formal framework, through House Bill 4663, to test and deploy self-driving cars in the state.
But autonomous vehicles at high-congestion points may worsen traffic, said Dany Robles, senior legislative director at the Illinois Environmental Council.
The Northern California region has a program that incentivizes autonomous vehicles to solve the first- and last-mile problem.
Oct 26, 2026 · via dailyherald.com
Advocates on Friday urged New Mexico lawmakers to join a handful of states that have passed public safety regulations for self-driving commercial vehicles.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported 1,199 automated vehicle crashes nationwide in the past year.
Driving systems that provide both automated speed and steering input but require a human driver were involved in 1,857 crashes.
Daniel Cook, a business agent with Teamsters Local 492 in Albuquerque, began his career driving commercial vehicles in Alaska at age 19.
Six states — Hawaii, California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Arkansas — passed self-driving vehicle regulations that require companies to obtain permits and state authorization to test or operate automated vehicles.
Oct 26, 2026 · via sourcenm.com
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Masats targets real-world testing for AIDA AI-powered bus door system within 12–18 months Door manufacturer Masats is advancing the development of its AIDA artificial intelligence-based bus door system, with testing on real vehicles targeted within the next 12–18 months.
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