Tesla revealed its new robotaxi program, which includes a unique driverless vehicle designed specifically for the effort.

Tesla aims to roll out its unsupervised FSD robotaxi software in most global markets this year, helping justify the company’s $1.3 trillion market cap. Yet Musk revealed his team is still getting ...

Elon Musk said Austin residents will be able to pay for a fully autonomous Tesla robotaxi ride in June, with an expansion to ...

The toaster-shaped vehicle made safe if conservative decisions and offered a relatively comfortable ride through Las Vegas.

By contrast, Alphabet-owned Waymo, which already offers paid rides in multiple U.S. cities, uses a multitude of sensors, including LiDar. That’s both for redundancy and for making sure the system ...

This may be why Tesla is testing its robotaxis in springtime in Texas when the weather is warm and dry. The automaker is also testing a similar robotaxi service in California. In those rides ...

However, Waymo will likely have an unassailable lead over Tesla by the time the robotaxi service is launched by Tesla. Waymo’s higher trip count gives it a technological lead to effectively deal ...

But a longer term question is how much it will hurt the success of Tesla’s hoped-for robotaxi (or CyberCab) business. Musk has stated many times that AI & automation—FSD, the robotaxi and the ...

Musk also clarified that Tesla owners will not yet be able to add their own cars to the ride-hailing service, an idea he previously pushed during the brand’s announcement of the Robotaxi.

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“So it’s kind of a big deal, bus lanes in China.” Musk is hoping Tesla will be the first to company worldwide to develop robotaxi technology flexible enough to be applied to any city ...