On October 8, Xpeng gave its robotaxi a name: Yoyo. The announcement, posted to Weibo, opened public registration in China and marked the moment the program moved, in Xpeng's own words, from technical validation into "marketization and industrialization." It is a vision-only robotaxi with no
For two years, the story of Europe's first truly driverless robotaxi has been written as a three-way race between familiar names: Waymo, Wayve and Uber, and Baidu, all converging on London with vehicles that, for now, still carry a human safety operator behind the wheel just in
Tesla riders in Austin opened their Robotaxi app this weekend to an unusual notification: "Cybercab fleet has doubled: more rides available." Behind that single line of app copy sits one of the most consequential moves in the autonomous vehicle industry this year. In the space of a few
While the American press has spent 2026 obsessing over Tesla's Cybercab rollout and Waymo's next city announcement, a different robotaxi story has been unfolding on a much bigger map. On Thursday, August 20, Uber and Baidu switched on a fully driverless robotaxi service in Dubai, putting
While Waymo and Tesla dominate the robotaxi headlines, a quieter autonomous vehicle story has been building in the freight lanes of the US Sun Belt — and last week it crossed a threshold that matters. Aurora Innovation launched its second-generation driverless Class 8 trucks on July 23, deploying them across
You’ve probably seen the headlines: driverless cars cruising through San Francisco, Nashville, and Miami. You might have even spotted a Waymo or Tesla Robotaxi in your city. But how does the whole thing actually work — from the moment you open the app to the moment you step out? And
The two biggest names in autonomous ride-hailing are finally competing on the same streets. Waymo — the Google spinoff that has been quietly building the world’s largest robotaxi network for over a decade — now faces a well-funded challenger in Tesla, whose Cybercab and FSD-powered Model Y fleet
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Real-World Performance: What the Data Shows Investment bank Jefferies published a detailed analysis in early 2026 after analysts took over 15 rides with Tesla and 19 with Waymo across the same routes in Austin. Their findings were revealing: Tesla’s lower price is real — in Dallas, one analyst recorded
You've probably seen the headlines: driverless cars cruising through San Francisco, Nashville, and Miami. You might have even spotted a Waymo or Tesla Robotaxi in your city. But how does the whole thing actually work — from the moment you open the app to the moment you step out?