Sep 17, 2026 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
Over flat highways and rolling rural hills, a small fleet of passenger vehicles and tractor-trailers have been learning to drive on Ohio’s roads for years now. But for the first time this summer – though on semi-private roads – some don’t have human drivers present....
Sep 17, 2026 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
A proposed Minneapolis ordinance would require self-driving cars to still have a person physically behind the wheel in hopes of saving jobs. Waymo says this is just a way to ban their cars. Robin Wonsley, who represents Minneapolis’ Ward 2 on the City Council,...
Sep 3, 2026 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
PlusAI Inc., which has developed AI-based virtual driver software for autonomous trucks, is going public via a merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company or SPAC. “This transaction validates a year of significant execution...
Aug 6, 2026 | Autonomous Vehicles, Freight, Trucks
South Korea’s largest logistics operator announced August 6 that it will deploy autonomous freight trucks on four inter-terminal corridors inside Daegu — a 2.4-million-person city — starting in October, marking the first time any Korean logistics company has run...
Aug 3, 2026 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Robotaxis
Uber was, at one time, developing and testing its own autonomous vehicle (AV) technology. The company, then led by Travis Kalanick, created Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) in 2014 and recruited dozens of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics...
Jul 16, 2026 | Autonomous Vehicles, Rideshare
According to documents viewed by WIRED and another obtained through a public records request, Uber’s lobbyists are pushing to build that strategy into law. The company’s representatives have pressed lawmakers to deploy autonomous vehicles on what it calls “hybrid...
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