Tag: robotaxis
Now A Woman Has Given Birth In A Waymo
While this is a kind of “gee-wiz” story that just catches one’s attention, it does bring up an interesting point or three. Increasing Passenger Safety via Robotaxis First, the news: A lady hailed a Waymo robotaxi to the UCSF (University of California–San Francisco) Medical Center on Monday, and on the … [continued]
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Panasonic to Supply Batteries for Zoox
Zoox, the robotaxi startup owned by Amazon, has expanded a bit recently, and it is ready to scale up enough that it has secured an EV battery supplier for more EV production. Starting in early 2026, Zoox will be receiving batteries from Panasonic Energy. It will be using 2170 cylindrical … [continued]
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Does Zipcar Leaving UK Have Any Relevance To Robotaxi Dreams?
There’s news this week that Zipcar is leaving the UK is interesting in multiple ways. I was an early Zipcar user back in 2004–2007. I loved it, and it helped me not own a car. Over the years, I was thus a big proponent of carsharing programs and even tried … [continued]
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China’s Most Updated Autonomous Driving Framework Makes Both Carmakers & Operators (Owners Included) Liable in a Crash
In this week’s CleanTechnica YouTube gathering, fellow CleanTechnica writers Zach Shahan, Larry Evans, José Pontes, and I over-extended the allotted time of 30 minutes and talked for an hour and fifteen. The discussions were continuous and spontaneous, layered, one topic opening up another. One of the points we raised and … [continued]
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Digging Deeper into Differences Between Tesla Full Self-Driving & Waymo Driver
In an article earlier today about Waymo announcing that it’s going to enter four more cities — Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and St. Louis — one of our readers provided a couple of brilliant comments. Now, let me say that I didn’t mention Tesla in the article, but there’s been a … [continued]
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