This authorization marks a major regulatory milestone toward the launch of Spain’s first commercial autonomous vehicle service.
The Community of Madrid, with its strong commuting demand and mature ride-hailing ecosystem provide an ideal foundation for autonomous mobility services.
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Sep 10, 2026 · via quiverquant.com
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Sep 10, 2026 · via seekingalpha.com
American Rheinmetall will lead execution in the United States, backed by engineering and production support from Rheinmetall Canada.
The work supports Marine Corps plans to expand autonomous logistics and mobility in expeditionary operations.
“This award represents a significant milestone in our long-standing partnership with the United States Marine Corps,” said Matt Warnick, chief executive of American Rheinmetall.
Earlier work included the fielding of 12 Mission Master systems and integration of the Fieldranger Remote Weapon Station.
American Rheinmetall plans to develop its Maine site into a future U.S. Advanced Land Autonomy Center of Excellence.
Sep 10, 2026 · via defence-industry.eu
The autonomous electric vehicles would be used in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole as part of a new pilot scheme outlined in BCP Council's latest transport plan, with a target delivery date of 2031.
They have been described as "tiny fridges on wheels" and are already in operation in several other parts of the UK.
"They have a lot of cameras and means to detect what's happening and they have various safety mechanisms," he said.
Hadley added that the robots would run on the left-hand side of the pavement to make their movements predictable, and that concerns about space and accessibility had been factored into discussions with the operator.
"As I understand it, they will avoid places where it's not safe for them to be," he said.
Sep 10, 2026 · via bbc.com
That's the idea behind A2RL, the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League.
It features big wings, a sculpted body, slick tires, and everything you'd expect from a modern, purpose-built formula-style racing car.
The A2RL cars, though, use a different engine, a turbocharged four-cylinder Honda K20C, producing around 500 horsepower.
That event also hosted a man-vs-machine event, with a demo autonomous car facing off against former Formula One driver Daniil Kvyat.
That's a big step backward from the progress shown at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina circuit, where the autonomous cars were just 1.5 seconds slower.
Sep 10, 2026 · via designnews.com
When will I be buying a GM vehicle that is fully self-driving?
One technology GM bought was Cruise.
When we considered investment in internal-combustion-engine and EV vehicles, we recognized that a fleet business is not something we do today.
I’m proud of GM’s safety team and the way it works hand in hand with the broader organization.
We also look at the agenda and ask whether any items in our senior leadership meeting could affect company safety or customer safety.
Sep 10, 2026 · via fortune.com
Is Oregon ready?
There was a bill in the Legislature earlier this year, House Bill 4085, that would have allowed self-driving vehicles on Oregon roads.
Cities wouldn’t be able to set their own rules for self-driving cars.
What do you think should be the rules for self-driving cars in Oregon?
Editorials reflect the views of The Bulletin’s editorial board, Editor Jody Lawrence-Turner, Editor Tim Trainor and Editorial Page Editor Richard Coe.
Sep 10, 2026 · via bendbulletin.com
And like it or not, the type of pedestrian might affect your decision to brake hard, or keep rolling.
The bigger question is how many human drivers decide whether to stop based on whom the pedestrian is.
Previous research, for instance, has found that many people are less likely to yield for Black pedestrians in the US.
Can Autonomous Cars Be Better Than Humans If Humans Are The Teachers?
The researchers focused on four AI models for LLM testing and four models for VLM tests, and they learned that all of them can inherit human biases in autonomous driving.
Sep 9, 2026 · via carbuzz.com
But it wasn’t until middle school, during the COVID-19 pandemic, that she started working on her own projects and taking computer science courses on the online learning platform Coursera.
“Everybody has something that feels like magic to them, something that lets them do what shouldn’t be possible, and that’s what computer science is for me,” she said.
Research on Making Self-Driving Cars Safer Now a rising second-year computer science student at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, Markova conducts research at the UCLA Mobility Lab, which is directed by Jiaqi Ma, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and computer science at UCLA Samueli.
Markova is also a reinforcement learning fellow with AI Safety at UCLA, a student research club for creating safe and robust AI systems.
For Markova, projects like Bruin Bet also reinforce what first drew her to building things: the satisfaction of turning an idea into something real.
Sep 9, 2026 · via samueli.ucla.edu
Washington DC has selected AIWaysion to deploy roadside sensing technology that will independently monitor how autonomous vehicles (AVs) behave alongside human-driven traffic.
The company, working with Parsons Corporation, will install its Mobile Unit for Sensing Traffic at two busy intersections from January.
The system will use computer vision to detect and track autonomous vehicles, generate detailed trajectory data and analyse their movements through mixed urban traffic.
Stephanie Dock, Autonomous Vehicles Programme Manager at the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), told Cities Today that AIWaysion was selected following an assessment by a panel of internal and external exper...
Sep 9, 2026 · via cities-today.com
This week, Lyft riders in Nashville, Tennessee, who request a ride on the app might get matched with a new driver: a robot.
Lyft, like its competitor Uber, insists that its platform will be a “hybrid network” for a long while yet, as human drivers work alongside robot ones.
Of the 72 people who work at this Nashville depot, half of them are former Lyft drivers, the company says.
One of those former drivers, Jonathan Baines, started picking up Lyft riders in 2016 to help support himself as he worked as singer-songwriter.
Bird says having Waymos on the Lyft platform will give riders more choice, which is a good thing.
Sep 9, 2026 · via wired.com
Gold-colored robotaxis developed by Tesla have been spotted driving on roads in Fairfax County, specifically in the Tysons area.
The self-driving vehicles appear to be collecting data on local roads and traffic.
Steering-wheel-free robotaxis make debut in Texas Tuss’s Cybercab sighting coincided with Tesla introducing self-driving robotaxis with no steering wheel or brake pedals in Austin, Texas.
Tesla trails self-driving taxi leader Waymo in the number of cabs deployed and trips completed.
Austin has had a self-driving Tesla “robotaxi” service since June last year, but those cars are equipped with steering wheels and brake pedals.
Sep 9, 2026 · via ffxnow.com
Autonomous cars are already testing the roads in Minneapolis, but the city may soon bar them from operating without a driver.
The company Waymo is currently testing its automated cars in Minneapolis.
But the company is looking to scale up to eventually offer rides without drivers in the cars.
The company, and supporters of automated vehicles, point to some studies that indicate the cars are safer than traditional vehicles with drivers.
Under the proposed Minneapolis ordinance, a driver would need to be in the car and paid minimum wage.
Sep 9, 2026 · via mprnews.org
Yet mounting research suggests that self-driving cars crash significantly less often than people, and with far fewer injuries.
The Highway Loss Data Institute found that cars with AEB alone showed a 13 percent drop in property-damage claims.
That included 92 percent fewer pedestrian injuries, 83 percent fewer crashes with airbag deployments, and 82 percent fewer crashes with any injuries whatsoever.
Related: Rivian’s Gambit for Full Autonomy The IIHS’s latest July study flatly stated that automated cars crash less often than people.
It then compared crash rates of human-driven cars against Waymo taxis in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin.
Sep 8, 2026 · via spectrum.ieee.org
- Production-proven AI vision perception software brings series-production validation capabilities to Arm Total Design for Physical AI, an ecosystem aimed at reducing integration complexity and accelerating autonomous system development - STRADVISION joins efforts to shape and evolve a Robotics Capability Framework, developing a common language for defining robotic system capabilities at increasing levels of sophistication. Collaboration targets the system-level integration challenge currently slowing deployment of robots and other autonomous machines SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- STRADVISION, an AI company specializing in production-proven visual perception software with over a decade of experience bringing advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving systems to market, today announced it is joining the Arm® Total Design for Physical AI ecosystem. The announcement was made at Arm Everywhere in Shanghai, China. Perception is a foundational capability for any autonomous system, whether it is navigating public roads or operating in other dynamic physical environments. STRADVISION has spent more than a decade bringing perception into production vehicles, delivering detection, classification, depth estimation and semantic segmentation across front-camera, surround-view and multi-camera configurations on a broad range of automotive compute platforms. Delivering that capability within the compute, power, thermal and cost budgets of a production camera module is a core discipline that physical AI systems now require at scale. That experience provides a proven foundation as the physical AI ecosystem works to integrate increasingly capable perception into robots and other autonomous machines. Physical AI is moving from technology innovation to system integration. AI and compute capability are advancing quickly, but building an autonomous machine still requires dozens of complex technologies spanning silicon, AI models, middleware, tools and applications that, today, are developed independently to work together. The result is a fragmented ecosystem in which intelligent systems are harder to design, compare, integrate and scale, and in which integration
Sep 8, 2026 · via prnewswire.com
The story so far: On September 3, 2026, Tesla announced the rollout of its new electric robotaxis, offering services in designated parts of Austin, Texas. According to news reports, the self-driving cars are almost impossible to ignore as their gold exterior and ‘Cybercab’ branding catch the eye. But the near-empty interior has sparked questions about the safety of passengers and their ability to intervene in case of emergencies. What are the features of Tesla’s Cybercab? The Cybercab is a self-driving car that has seating for two people. The ‘butterfly’ doors open upwards and the body boasts a sleek, cyberpunk-inspired design that contrasts sharply with the chunkier camera-mounted cars from rival Waymo. The golden exterior is meant to represent a “literal” golden age of transportation, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. There are no steering controls or pedals inside the Cybercabs. Mr. Musk has declared that the cars were built for “maximally efficient autonomous operation.” On the absence of brake pedals, he said this would help in reducing the complexity of a hydraulic system, and that “plumbing” would not have to be routed all around the car. Regulators will need to confirm if Mr. Musk’s design choices comply with their safety requirements. Mr. Musk described the Cybercab as “basically a super comfortable lounge on wheels with a great TV and epic sound”. With upcoming Starlink integration, users would be able to watch 4k live video while riding in the Cybercab, he said. Switches under the touchscreen allow users to lower the windows. A cabin camera monitors the vehicle’s interior. A Tesla Cybercab promotional video showed passengers sleeping, watching movies, playing games, teaching children, holdings dogs, and handling conference calls while they were taking a ride. A major perk for loyal passengers is that their climate and media settings are saved in
Sep 8, 2026 · via thehindu.com
Eric Wu built and ran Opendoor, one of the more ambitious real estate startups of the last decade, before stepping away in 2022 after fast-rising interest rates abruptly slowed down home sales. He spent a year resetting — he’d been running the company for eight years at that point — and could have easily jumped into investing when he felt done with his hiatus. But like a lot of founders, he’s so convinced that AI will be the defining tech platform of his lifetime that he more recently decided instead to dive back into company building. As he told me during a call earlier this summer, “I knew if I looked back in 10 years and didn’t do something related to it, I’d probably regret that.” The opportunity Wu is chasing — building AI copilots for construction workers and other field laborers, something he describes as a hands-free expert coach for the people physically building things — isn’t exactly a secret. The construction industry is short workers by a wide margin. The trade group Associated Builders and Contractors has said roughly 349,000 additional workers would be needed this year just to keep pace with construction demand, a challenge that looks to worsen with workers getting older, workers getting shipped out of the United States owing to more aggressive U.S. immigration enforcement, and also the growing number of major projects being planned, specifically data centers. We’ve all heard now — from the entire AI industry — about the giant server farms that the AI boom demands. Those projects have grown enormous, and staffing demand has grown with them. Where a large data center campus once needed something like 750 workers at its peak, the biggest projects now require far more. Meta’s Hyperion campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, for example, will reportedly
Sep 8, 2026 · via techcrunch.com
- Wang Naiyan has left to launch a physical AI venture, becoming the latest core tech talent from China's auto industry to enter the emerging field. - Former Xpeng and Li Auto executives have also moved into robotics, while Nio is backing Ren Shaoqing's startup as he retains his autonomous driving role. Xiaomi Auto's L3 autonomous driving technology lead, Wang Naiyan, has reportedly left to launch a physical AI venture, becoming the latest core technology talent from China's auto industry to enter the emerging field. Wang recently left Xiaomi and has been meeting frequently with investors to explore physical AI opportunities, 36Kr reported on Tuesday. 21jingji also reported today, citing multiple independent sources, that Wang has launched an embodied AI venture focused on robot brains and is seeking funding. Wang's team includes several former colleagues from TuSimple, now renamed CreateAI, and has more than 10 core researchers and engineers, an investor told 21jingji. Wang's move extends a migration of automotive autonomous driving talent into robotics and embodied AI. Former executives at Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV) and Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI) have joined companies in the field or launched startups, while the autonomous driving chief at Nio Inc (NYSE: NIO) is also pursuing an independent venture. The shift reflects efforts to apply perception, planning and reinforcement learning capabilities developed for autonomous driving to a broader range of tasks in the physical world. For automakers, it also means growing pressure to retain core AI talent. Wang holds a doctorate from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and spent 9 years at TuSimple's China operations, serving as chief technology officer for the China region from 2019, 36Kr noted. He joined Xiaomi Auto in May 2024 to lead autonomous driving technology development and L3 projects, reporting to Ye Hangjun, general manager of the
Sep 8, 2026 · via cnevpost.com
A Tesla was rolling west through Colorado’s mountains on Saturday when another motorist noticed something strange enough to call police. The person behind the wheel — and the passenger, no less — appeared to be asleep. Colorado State Patrol confirmed Monday that it received the unusual report of the Tesla traveling westbound on Interstate 70 near Georgetown. "Troopers were unable to locate the vehicle, and we did not contact it,” said Trooper Gabriel Moltrer of the Colorado State Patrol. He confirmed, “It is illegal to be asleep at the wheel.” Colorado may let the car do some of the work, but not enough for the human to take a nap. For Wyoming Tesla driver Eric Secrist, though, accidentally dozing off while the car does much of the driving isn’t hypothetical. Secrist drives Uber full time and said it has happened on the long drive home after longer trips, when he was tired and had Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” system engaged. The system is a partially automated driver-assist feature that still requires a fully attentive human driver. “I just accidentally doze off, and the car just continues driving safely, driving down the road,” he said. It didn’t let him stay asleep. “It sees you dozing off, and it does wake you up with general alarms,” Secrist said. No, You Can't Take A Nap Secrist happened to be driving from Cheyenne back home to Laramie when Cowboy State Daily reached him Monday. Or, as he put it: “Actually, right now my Tesla’s driving me back home.” Tesla calls its current system “Full Self-Driving (Supervised).” It can follow curves, negotiate intersections and roundabouts, make turns, change lanes and enter and exit highways, but Tesla is explicit about what that does not mean. “You are driving Model S at all times,” the company’s current
Sep 8, 2026 · via cowboystatedaily.com
On September 3, 2026, Tesla began charging fares for Cybercab rides in Austin, Texas. Federal regulators responded the same day. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened Audit Query AQ26002 covering roughly 1,000 Cybercabs — a formal examination of how Tesla declared a vehicle with no steering wheel, no pedals, and no mirrors compliant with U.S. safety standards written for traditional cars. The audit is not a recall, and NHTSA has not concluded the Cybercab is unsafe or illegally deployed. What regulators want to see is the paperwork and engineering data behind Tesla's compliance claim — specifically, which safety standards the company decided simply don't apply to a car built without the controls those standards assume every vehicle has. What Self-Certification Means, and Why It Matters Here Under U.S. law — 49 CFR Part 571 — automakers certify their own compliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. They build the vehicle, determine it meets every applicable FMVSS requirement, and bring it to market without advance NHTSA approval. The agency then audits that certification after the fact and can open defect investigations if the paperwork doesn't hold up. That system is what allowed Tesla to start commercial Cybercab service in Austin without waiting for a green light from Washington. The Cybercab carries no steering column, no brake pedal, no accelerator pedal, and no conventional mirrors. FMVSS rules cover all of those items — steering columns, brake pedals, mirrors, and more. Tesla's position is that the Cybercab complies with every standard that actually applies to a vehicle lacking those components. NHTSA's audit will determine whether that reasoning is legally and technically sound. In a statement, NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison put it plainly: "NHTSA fully supports the safe development and deployment of automated vehicles. But as the federal regulator, we need to ensure
Sep 7, 2026 · via topspeed.com