
This week's lead
Feds want robotaxis to signal ‘I’m driving’ with
The Verge · Oct 23, 2026
How should driverless cars tell the world no one is at the wheel?
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Regulators want cars to use cyan lights to signal "self-driving active". It sounds like a great service to first responders, police, and emergency vehicles, but how will regular human drivers respond to the signal? Will they respect AVs' right of way or exploit AVs' inclination toward caution? (No human ego will be cut here...) As always, nothing is as easy as it might seem.
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The Drive · Oct 22, 2026
GM Is Building New V8s, EVs, and Self-Driving Cars at Once. Its Vehicle Boss Told Us How
GM Senior VP of Vehicle Products Jaclyn McQuaid told The Drive how AI could halve development time and what follows the 2028 Escalade IQ.
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Medium · Oct 21, 2026
Wonder Expands Avride Partnership in Four Cities
Bringing Autonomous Delivery to More Merchants on the Grubhub Marketplace
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AI Proem · Jul 21, 2026
Pony.ai CEO James Peng on the Future of Robotaxis and Autonomous Mobility
What does it take to turn a fully driverless car from a technical breakthrough into a real transportation network?
Play videoZoox · Jun 25, 2026
Inside The Ride: Scaling Zoox | Episode One
Building a robotaxi from the ground up means making decisions that no one has ever had to make: from sensor architecture to vehicle engineering to the software stack running...
Play videoLesson of the week
The DARPA Grand Challenge: the big bang of self-driving
Zooming out to a wider angle is a good practice in any domain. We find the DARPA challenges to be a great context for the historical perspective
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