#autonomous-vehicles

#autonomous-vehicles

Tesla Optimus is likely going to be the biggest product the company ever develops, and Musk has even predicted that it could make up about 80 percent of the company's value in the coming years. Teasing the potential to eliminate any trivial and monotonous tasks from human life, Optimus surely has its appeal. However, Musk revealed over the weekend that the humanoid robot should be able to utilize Tesla's dataset for Full Self-Driving (FSD) to operate cars not manufactured by Tesla:

A state law on the matter goes into effect July 2026. As KRON4 reports, police officers patrolling for impaired drivers near the San Bruno Caltrain station recently witnessed the errant Waymo pulling a U-ey at a traffic light. Upon discovering there was no driver in the car, officers alerted the company of the glitch and sent the vehicle on its way, per KTVU.

In July, Lucid, Uber, and Nuro announced a massive robotaxi deal that would see the deployment of 20,000 autonomous vehicles in the US over the next six years. But every journey begins with a single step, and today Lucid announced the delivery of the first Gravity SUV to Nuro for retrofitting. The vehicle was built at Lucid's factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, and then transported to the automaker's headquarters in Newark, California. There, a team from Nuro installed the sensors and other hardware for autonomous driving.

British startup Wayve has begun testing self-driving cars with Nissan in Japan ahead of a 2027 launch to consumers, as the company said it was in talks for a $500m investment from the chip-maker Nvidia. Wayve, based in London, said it had installed its self-driving technology on Nissan's electric Ariya vehicles and tested them on Tokyo's streets, after first agreeing a deal with the Japanese carmaker in April.

In a recent demonstration of the technology developed by British company Wayve, a Nissan Ariya sedan outfitted with 11 cameras, five radars and a next-generation sensor called LiDAR maneuvered its way through downtown Tokyo, braking for red lights as well as pedestrians and other cars at intersections. It's set to be available in 2027, although Nissan did not give the models or other details.

Priced at $15.50 per American Depositary Share (ADS) in its initial public offering, the stock has tumbled roughly 25% to around $11.53 per share amid broader market jitters and sector headwinds. Harsher still, shares languish 74% below the stratospheric peak of $44 per share they hit in February. That's when ( NvidiaNASDAQ:NVDA) unveiled a $24.7 million, 1.7 million-share stake that ignited a trading frenzy, doubling the stock's value in days.

Having started 2025 with a series of moves to boost its presence in the US, strengthen its position in industrial logistics, and extend its use and expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), UK-based autonomous vehicle (AV) technology company Oxa has extended its business relationship with AI leader Nvidia, with expanded use of the Nvidia Cosmos World Foundation Models and next-generation Nvidia Drive AGX Thor developer kits to accelerate the evolution of its self-driving software.

Hawley said he planned to introduce a bill on the topic "soon," but declined to offer further details. A self-styled populist, Hawley staked out his stance against autonomous vehicles in a speech at the National Conservatism last week, where he cast AI as part of a transhumanist project and called for a series of restrictions on the technology. "Only humans should drive cars and trucks," Hawley said at the time.

The Chronicle, which helped to sensationalize the "doom loop" narrative about San Francisco four years ago, now has a headline about the beginnings of a "boom loop." The article goes on to talk about the fact that the AI boom and rising rents still doesn't mean developers are rushing to build new housing yet. [Chronicle] The California Commission on Judicial Performance has admonished a Los Angeles County judge, Judge Enrique Monguia, for threatening to shoot defendants and attorneys, or to have them