Launch Tesla promises a wheelchair-accessible robotaxi, expanding its autonomous vehicle ambitions beyond the standard passenger. Tesla Says It’s Building a Wheelchair-Accessible Robotaxi - WIRED · WIRED
Launch Waymo is quietly testing its Denver robotaxi ambitions on a captive audience of employees before facing actual customers. Waymo launching robotaxi service in Denver. But only for its own workers. · The Colorado Sun
Launch Waymo is pushing into four new cities as the company turns its longest-running robotaxi experiment into something resembling a real business. Waymo to start driverless rides in 4 more U.S. markets as expansion accelerates · CNBC
Launch Waymo is expanding its autonomous taxi service to San Diego, another notch in its methodical march toward mainstream driverless operations. Waymo's vehicles ready to drive themselves in San Diego, company says · NBC 7 San Diego
Opinion As Uber and Waymo fight over robotaxi turf, the technology that was supposed to arrive any day now is finally generating real business disputes. Uber and Waymo Are Sparring. The Robotaxi Future Has Arrived - Bloomberg.com · Bloomberg.com
Opinion TechCrunch issues a stark demand to robotaxi companies: prove commercial viability or face a reckoning from skeptics and regulators alike. TechCrunch Mobility: A robotaxi ultimatum - TechCrunch · TechCrunch
Opinion Robotaxis are expanding faster than regulators can write rules, creating a patchwork of municipal jurisdictions that threatens to balkanize the industry. Robotaxi growth meets a regulatory maze - Axios · Axios
Opinion California's permitting loophole lets Waymo operate free robotaxi rides while skirting the state's commercial approval process. Free Waymo Rides in California? You Can Thank a Regulatory Quirk · WIRED
Other Waymo and Cruise passengers are dozing off during rides, leading to emergency calls from concerned bystanders—a quirk of the driverless taxi that nobody quite anticipated. Robotaxi Riders Are Falling Asleep, Sparking Frantic 911 Calls - Bloomberg.com · Bloomberg.com
Other Waymo's safety protocols caught minors vandalizing a robotaxi from the inside, a reminder that driverless fleets face not just technical challenges but the mundane disorder of human passengers. Waymo turns in teens who were drinking, shooting Orbeez from robotaxi in San Mateo · NBC Bay Area