A Silicon Valley lawmaker wants to require robotaxis like Google’s Waymo to hire human operators to be on standby locally in case the system goes haywire – like it did last winter when a blackout in ...

It turns out Waymo's self-driving taxis aren’t always acting alone. Featured Video During a congressional hearing this week, the company acknowledged that when its robotaxis get confused, they request ...

Emergency response is the sharpest edge of the problem, but cities also have to plan for what happens when robotaxis scale on ordinary days. We have been here before. The San Francisco County ...

A major San Francisco power outage left clusters of Waymo robotaxis stalled in intersections and live lanes after their remote support systems were overwhelmed, forcing the company to pause operations ...

Tesla’s Robotaxi fleet is expanding fast in California, with more than a thousand cars now registered for paid service, but the program still relies on human drivers while true driverless prototypes ...

Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles, according to newly unredacted information submitted to the National Highway Traffic ...