U.S. safety investigator whose probe into the October Tolleson drone-crane collision remains in progress per its website.
NHTSA is weighing a petition alleging about 1,000 Tesla robotaxis exceed speed limits in active school zones. Most defect petitions never become formal investigations, and the agency recorded no crashes, injuries or fatalities in this one.
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Waymo closed a $5bn loan from Pimco, Blackstone and Sixth Street, the first debt the Alphabet-owned robotaxi company has taken on. The money pays for more cars in cities it already serves and for launches abroad, and as a term loan it has to be repaid whatever the ride numbers turn out to be.
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Prime Air will add five states and six times the coverage by year-end. Its own delivery target, its accident file and a December permit decision in England are the harder numbers.
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The August 14 decision holds that once a board builds an information system and monitors it, how it responds to what that system reports is business judgment, which makes oversight claims harder to plead than the past few years suggested.
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The sixfold expansion moves drone delivery out of pilot mode. It does not move the payload limit, the 7.5-mile radius, or three open crash investigations.
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