Urbanists Hate Cars. Should They Hate Electric Robotaxis? // Self-driving cars seem to be just more cars, and people who dislike cars don't love that. But the electric robotaxi offers much more potential : buff.ly/c7eSXQ0

Does Tesla Really Have A Robotaxi? They Don’t Make It Easy To Find Out // Tesla has expanded their service area for rides with nobody in the vehicle. This implies they are closer to ready, but other clues suggest otherwise : buff.ly/GASDN0P

Baidu Silent About Failure Of 100 Robotaxis In Wuhan // Baidu Apollo Robotaxis froze in the middle of lanes, stranding passengers and causing crashes. What didn't Baidu learn from Waymo and what might we suspect about the cause? : buff.ly/GK42dud

Verne Plans Croatian Robotaxi, Dropping Mobileye And Dropping Verne? // Verne was to ship a Croation built 2 seater custom robotaxi with Mobileye Drive. Instead they have a Chinese robotaxi from Pony.AI and Arcfox, managed by Uber. : buff.ly/6EFTrTB

The Core Rules Of EV Charging Infrastructure Are About To Change // Most EVs in the 2030s will be able to drive themselves a short distance to an automated charging station. That rewrites what EV charging infrastructure to build : www.forbes.com/sites/bradte...

United Airlines Misses Opportunity With Polaris “Companion Ottoman” // A fancy seat has room for 2. United could let you pair it with a coach seat you barely use and make an attractive offering for couples : buff.ly/vjHIOHQ

My Waymo Ride From The Airport Was Great. Getting To It, Not So Much // Waymo is forced to pick up far away from the gate, especially when the AirTrain station in your terminal is closed. I describe the issues of an SFO Waymo ride for now : buff.ly/hS4QAdn

New Japanese Time -- a radical alternative to Daylight Savings People love and hate Daylight Savings Time. Or more to the point, they hate the transition to and from it, particularly the spring one where you get 1 hour less sleep. It's even been tracked that traffic...

New Japanese Time -- a radical alternative to Daylight Savings

Waymo Gets Shy As Scaling Creates More Incidents; Plus Key New Details // I examine if Waymo is becoming less transparent and why, and how transparent they should be. Plus several key new details on the blackout, school buses and schoolchild. : buff.ly/Nsn9ZOD

AI is about to change televised sports I don't watch sports live, I watch on a delay. This saves a lot of time immediately by skipping commercials (if I haven't paid to remove them, as I did in the Olympics) but also things like time-outs,...

AI is about to change televised sports

Uber ‘Autonomous Solutions’ Reveals Their Strategy, Is It Enough? // Uber wants to provide all the many other ingredients of self-driving beyond the vehicle, including of course the ride hail : buff.ly/vlbxr8y

Waymo Overseas Human Assist Wasn’t Secret, But Is It Secure? // Waymo reveals it has only one remote assist operator per 40 vehicles. I examine the security issues around having remote ops staff, particularly overseas. : www.forbes.com/sites/bradte...

Hyundai’s ‘Motional’ Robotaxi Runs With Empty Left Seat In Las Vegas // Motional is working to graduate to a real robocar, with no full time human supervision, but they still have a supervisor in the car : buff.ly/mTz2SHb

Kevin Kelly's Best Case Scenario podcast on robocars Kevin Kelly is easily on the list of the world's best and most experienced futurists, and a friend. He's started a new podcast series to explore the most optimistic forecasts for the future, and he asked...

Kevin Kelly's Best Case Scenario podcast on robocars

Waymo Builds Fancy AI-Based Simulator Tool To Improve Robotaxi Tests // You want to test a robocar in a simulation of everything you can think of. Now Waymo has built an AI tool with Google Gemini to make that easier to do : buff.ly/ciJO9oW

Notable Self-Driving Items From CES 2026: Nuro, Mobileye, Nvidia, More // CES has become the smart car show. I summarize what was interesting from several companies. : buff.ly/mCarHKl

To Build FSD, Is Elon Musk Being Cortés And Burning His Ships? // Tesla has pushed a bold and risky strategy to do it with less hardware. Has this been an effort to force the team to make the harder path work? : buff.ly/BbMuEio

Tesla Cannonball Runs And Empty Robotaxis; The Math On Their Reality // Empty robotaxis and long drives without interventions make some imagine Tesla FSD is ready to deploy. The math may say the reverse. : buff.ly/eGWCUYd

Fewer Hotels Are Offering EV Charging Free. It May Be Tesla’s Fault // Charging at hotels is the best way to charge on road trips. Sadly, hotels are now billing a lot more to do it. : buff.ly/XbAEVSi

I Ride A Zoox Robotaxi At CES And It Goofs Up A Little. (Video Review) // A review, with video, of the new Zoox robotaxi operating in Las Vegas. The ride is good but has some flaws. Can Zoox's risky strategy win the game against Waymo, Tesla? : buff.ly/gsotLuF

Why Did Waymos Get Stuck? Was It Crazy Humans? // I don't think Waymo failed to plan for a power outage. I suspect a combination of human craziness and some Waymo mistakes made it happen : buff.ly/AJTSyxL

Waymo Did Badly In A Big Power Outage. Where Was The Simulator? // Waymo says they failed because they ran out of humans to help cars out of a jam. Why didn't simulation tell them in advance how many humans they would need? : buff.ly/CzIHNmT

Robocars 2025 In Review: Tesla v. Waymo And More // The biggest stories of the year, with no surprise, the Waymo and Tesla constrast playing a big role in the year's news. : buff.ly/Uydrwef

Tesla Deploys Robotaxis With Nobody In Them. Are They Unsupervised? // There are many clues that Tesla is using lots of remote monitoring and supervision, and possibly even remote driving, for their early tests. Optimus still does that. : buff.ly/2MQJRLp

Waymos Were Passing Stopped School Buses. Let’s Rethink School Buses. // Waymo fixed the problem, and they should definitely obey the law. But is what they did actually dangerous? And how might we redesign the school bus system in the future? : buff.ly/L9lSQcy

Waymo Offers A Peak Under Their AI Hood And Keeps Growing // We get to see a little more of how Waymo has structured their AI as they get to do the land rush alone in the USA. : buff.ly/FmD4tUg

For Most EV Charging Stations, You Want The Slowest Speed, Not Fastest // People with gasoline thinking are obsessed with duplicating the gasoline fill-up, and want fast charging. But the right answer is to be slow, matching the dwell time. : www.forbes.com/sites/bradte...

So When Do Robotaxis Come To Your Town? // Waymo just doubled the number of cities they operate with nobody in the vehicle. How do the various teams decide where to expand next, and will it be your town? : buff.ly/KwBA0NT

Tesla Finally Releases FSD Crash Data That Appears More Honest // Tesla has for years released highly misleading crash safety data for Autopilot. Now they may finally get closer to allowing apples to apples comparisons : buff.ly/U0BdHBx

Waymo Now Serves Freeways, SJC Airport, Large New Areas // Waymo will now drive freeways and cover most of the San Francisco peninsula, including SJC airport : buff.ly/RpZTabp