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Autonomous-driving company founded in Fremont, California in 2016, developing a Level 4 'Virtual Driver' robotaxi stack for large-scale deployment.
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Sources told the Financial Times that Anthony Levandowski is leading robotaxi work at Travis Kalanick's Atoms, which Uber funded with $100m. Atoms says it is an industrial software company, then leaves Uber a way in.
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Bolt aims to put at least 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads under a non-binding framework with no order and no date, while the only EU-wide approval route for a fully automated car allows 1,500 of a type a year.
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Waymo's plan puts Jaguar I-PACEs on Singapore roads within months and a year of manual driving in 2027, and the Land Transport Authority has said deployment will not outrun its ability to retrain affected drivers.
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JPMorgan lifted its Tesla price target from $145 to $475 while moving the stock only to neutral. Its $320 billion robotaxi projection for 2035 runs almost entirely through cars Tesla builds and owns itself.
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Pony.ai and Verne have taken the safety driver out of a 22km route in Zagreb and left the bookings inside Uber. The partners want more than 2,000 cars on European roads, and the union-wide small series path allows 1,500 a year.
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The first autonomous rides in the UK arrive with a licensed driver in every seat and a fare no higher than a normal Uber, and the $8.6 billion valuation is really a bet on the regulatory approval still to come.
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Fewer than 20 Mach-Es at ordinary Uber fares, each with a Transport for London licensed operator aboard, which makes this a strong test of rider demand and dispatch integration and no test at all of driverless cost.
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R2 was co-designed with GAC Aion so 33 sensors could feed one computer across three vehicle domains, and the Beijing and Guangzhou trial tests whether owning the car and the dispatch network beats buying either, though no intervention rate came with it.
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The Korean partner carries certification, market entry and operations while the Chinese side supplies the stack, and the 80,000 km of Gangnam validation sits on Kona retrofits rather than on the cars actually being shipped.
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Standard UberX and Uber Comfort riders in two Dubai districts can now be matched with an empty Baidu Apollo Go car. The "Autonomous" button raises the odds; it is not the gate.
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The Zagreb launch with Pony.ai and Verne adds a distribution channel, not a new capability. The safety operator stays because European rules, not the software, set the pace.
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A Forbes account puts the Zeekr-built Ojai at about $38,000 before more than 125 percent in stacked duties. Waymo is buying in volume anyway, which is a statement about assumed margin.
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The August 14 announcement names no cities, no dates, no per-city vehicle counts and no supervision model. What it does describe is who buys the cars.
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