Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that | TechCrunch
Take a stroll around San Francisco and it won’t take long to spot an empty autonomous vehicle cruising the city’s
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Trump administration proposes axing brake-pedal requirement for AVs in a boost for Tesla | TechCrunch
The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has proposed new changes to federal vehicle regulations that would allow companies to
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Mobileye’s US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business | TechCrunch
Mobileye has pitched itself as an autonomous vehicle technology supplier. Now it wants the operator label, too. The Intel subsidiary
Read MoreWaymo bought Apple's self-driving car proving ground for $220M | TechCrunch
Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell
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Uber, Wayve and Waymo are headed towards a robotaxi showdown in London | TechCrunch
Uber customers in the U.K. can now join an interest list to increase their chances of being matched with a
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Exclusive: Uber to deploy 500 data-collection vehicles this year
Uber revealed on Wednesday a prototype car that it plans to use to scoop up real-world driving data that can
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Squishmallows, dentures, and an ‘I Heart Hot Dads’ bag: Uber has found thousands of items left in robotaxis | TechCrunch
For the past 10 years, Uber’s annual Lost & Found Index has provided a rather quirky anthropological snapshot of its
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Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation, a 4x jump in a year | TechCrunch
Mach Industries, the three-year-old defense tech startup run by 22-year-old founder and CEO Ethan Thornton, has raised a $300 million
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