Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo may not be as loud as Tesla in the autonomous vehicle race, but co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says that Waymo is the only company that’s operating fully driverless rides at scale - most recently notching 10 million autonomous rides.

The tech giant has been expanding its autonomous ride-hailing service, while AI growth helped it beat profit expectations in the first quarter.

Elon Musk promised the June Austin Robotaxi would operate "unsupervised." New disclosures suggest that won't happen, but what will?

Pony AI Inc.’s report on its first full quarter as a publicly traded company will have investors and analysts homing in on how a new generation of robotaxis could put the firm on a path to profitability.

Tesla's June robotaxi debut in Austin is a go, but it will be invite only, a Morgan Stanley analyst, who visited the company's Palo Alto office, said.

Baidu's autonomous driving business completed its first overseas expansion in March, with Apollo Go foraying into the Dubai and Abu Dhabi markets. In May, it commenced open-road validation testing in Dubai and secured approval for designated passenger testing in Hong Kong, its first right-hand drive market.

ATL will be the second city, after Austin, where Waymo’s driverless cars will be available exclusively on the Uber app. Ahead of the public launch this summer, Uber is opening up access to a group of riders selected from the company’s interest list for early test rides.

Until the recent reversal, its website stated Tesla vehicles delivered after April 15, 2022 "are not eligible for purchase."

Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo may not be as loud as Tesla in the autonomous vehicle race, but co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says it’s the only company that’s operating fully driverless rides at scale - most recently notching 10 million autonomous rides.

(Reuters) - Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday said a test of robotaxis would begin on schedule in Austin, Texas by the end of June. Musk in a CNBC interview said that he expected Austin to launch with about 10 cars and that robotaxi deployment would scale up to about a thousand within a few months.

Atlanta has become a hot market for testing autonomous vehicle tech. Now Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi service is expanding the testing of its self driving technology after deploying a small number of test vehicles downtown, using safety drivers. Full autonomous testing starts this summer.