San Francisco was affected by a massive power outage over the weekend. It started with a fire at a substation in the city on Saturday afternoon, causing a blackout that at times affected as much as a ...

A Tesla robotaxi with safety driver (Tesla calls them a monitor) in the Austin deployment. Posters and reported a few sightings of Tesla robotaxis in Austin, TX operating with nobody in them, neither ...

Waymo’s robotaxis suffered a serious failure on Saturday when a power outage affecting a large part of San Francisco caused problems for its autonomous cars in the city. Some 130,000 residents lost ...

Waymo grew its lead in the robotaxi market in 2025 and is now operating, planning to launch a service or testing its vehicles in 26 markets in the U.S. and abroad. Amazon's Zoox began offering free ...

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The year 2025 saw the rapid expansion of robotaxi operations. The technology has started to infiltrate mainstream culture, appearing in pop songs. Recordings of robotaxi mishaps are also going viral ...

Widespread adoption of robotaxis will likely only make traffic worse, an issue we've been warning our readers about for nearly 15 years. But as we've seen so many times, Silicon Valley's billionaires ...

Waymo is shipping a software update to help its robotaxis navigate disabled traffic lights during power outages “more decisively,” the company said Tuesday in a blog post that explains why its ...

Waymo’s promise of safer streets is colliding with a very old piece of road reality: the flashing red lights of a school bus. Even after a high profile software recall meant to keep its robotaxis from ...

When the power went out in San Francisco over the weekend, experts say Waymo robotaxis failed a major stress test. Images of Waymo vehicles stopped in roads and intersections — backing up traffic ...

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