BART is failing, but the plan to expand it involves extravagant cost to duplicate its almost 70 year old design. New technology might serve riders for far less

Self-driving cars are often depicted as "just more cars" and thus bad news for cities and transit. But what if self-driving could be the salvation of transit?

Requiring human drivers, 3 sensors, fat permit fees and per-mile taxes are the wrong sorts of regulations, and the companies should avoid endorsing them

More data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents

Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea

13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on.

Figuring out the depth of water should be easy for a car with 3D sensors. So why is Waymo having so much trouble tracking flooding?

A Waymo left a rider at the airport without his bags. Another had a flat tire on the way to the airport. Incidents like this teach hard lessons about customer service.

Flying cars, self-driving vans and full traffic metering probably can't be fully ready in 2028, but some modern technology can help to reduce the traffic nightmare.

It's counter-intuitive, but smaller, van-sized vehicles can make more energy-efficient transit than buses and trains, because better service means less empty seats, thanks to self-driving

FSD and Robotaxi will be a lot slower to roll out than promised earlier. A few details were given on upgrading older HW3 cars to use FSD, once it works.

Why is Pony.AI starting operations in Croatia?

Read more at Forbes.com in China: Pony.AI Wants Toe In European Water

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

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

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?

Verne was to ship a Croatian built 2 seater custom robotaxi with Mobileye Drive. Instead they have a Chinese robotaxi from Pony.AI and Arcfox, managed by Uber.

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

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

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

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.