A year ago, MOIA America and Uber unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a commercial robotaxi service — using autonomous versions of Volkswagen’s electric ID. Buzz minivan — in multiple U.S. cities over the next decade. Los Angeles is the first city on that list.Testing will start in the next few weeks with about 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles in Los Angeles, according to the company. The production version of the driverless vehicle seats four people.

The catalyst is Waymo’s launch in Nashville, Tennessee, adding another city to a commercial robotaxi footprint that already includes San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin. For investors who have watched Alphabet pour billions into its self-driving bet for years, Nashville is more than a new pin on a map. It’s evidence that the commercial rollout is accelerating.

While humans are responsible for killing animals with their cars all the time, this incident has brought negative attention to the new technology. Local media picked up on the duck incident after a resident posted in a Mueller neighborhood Facebook group that an Avride autonomous vehicle (with a human safety operator behind the wheel) ran over and killed a duck, and did not stop afterwards. “It didn’t slow down or hesitate at all, just steamrolled through,” the post, which KXAN reported on, reads.

A "system failure" caused a robotaxi outage involving multiple vehicles operated by Baidu's Apollo Go ​in central Chinese city of Wuhan, local police said on Wednesday, ‌re-igniting safety concerns over the fast-growing service.Police received reports late on Tuesday that numerous Apollo Go cars had stopped in the middle of roads and were unable to move, ​according to an official statement.

Depuis l’annonce de leur collaboration lors du GTC 2026, NVIDIA et Bolt ambitionnent de transformer la mobilité urbaine européenne. À travers ce partenariat, la société de VTC accède à une panoplie d’outils d’intelligence artificielle et de calcul haute performance signés NVIDIA. De son côté, le géant américain met la main sur un flux conséquent de données issues des trajets réalisés par les véhicules Bolt, un atout non négligeable pour faire progresser ses propres modèles.

Derrière ces avancées se dessine une nouvelle donne : celle d’une clientèle plus autonome, capable de résoudre ses problématiques sans solliciter systématiquement un interlocuteur humain. Selon les chiffres avancés par CaixaBank, cette évolution pourrait augmenter jusqu’à 40 % la fidélisation des clients et réduire de 28 % les abandons lors du processus d’achat. Ainsi, c’est tout le modèle du commerce qui se trouve réorienté vers davantage de personnalisation, d’efficacité et surtout, un recentrage permanent sur les véritables attentes du client.

I’m not exaggerating: “Robotic AI Radio” is the exact phrase Jensen used during GTC 2026. What we are witnessing is a fundamental rewiring of how the world computes, and this groundbreaking development was showcased alongside 120 different robots at GTC 2026 today. This deployment is the first fruit of the partnership between Nokia and NVIDIA for building their Aerial RAN product. It is a massive architectural shift that incorporates GPUs directly into the RAN (Radio Access Network) for two critical purposes: improving RF signal processing and, crucially, enabling physical AI inference right at the edge. Although we are really early in the game, it is abundantly clear that AI has left the central datacenters and training labs. It is now all about the physical world and inference, where telcos can play a big role.

Uber has already partnered with major players in the space, including Baidu, Amazon’s Zoox, Nissan and British startup Wayve, and said it will invest more than $100 million to develop autonomous vehicle charging hubs as the sector races to commercialize driverless mobility at scale.

Les salariés d'Ampere, la branche électrique mise sur pied par l'ancien patron Luca de Meo, sont revus drastiquement à la baisse. L'échec de l'introduction en Bourse de la filiale, début 2024, rendait inéluctable cette remise à plat.

Emanuele Cappellano, le patron Europe de Stellantis, appelle la Commission européenne à agir, sous peine de voir l'industrie automobile européenne décliner inexorablement.

De la Corée du Sud au Brésil, le constructeur chinois Geely apporte au français des économies d'échelle dans ses usines et des modèles pour enrichir son offre. Un rôle que jouait jadis Nissan chez Renault.

Le constructeur fait le ménage dans ses comptes et acte son coup de frein dans le tout-électrique. Tout comme Ford ou General Motors avant lui… Le titre a plongé de 25% à la Bourse de Paris.

Waymo announces its sixth-generation autonomous driving technology will eliminate steering wheels and pedals entirely, deploying purpose-built robotaxis with Geely in a bold move that could reshape transportation economics and accelerate the driverless future.

The technology physically separates the terminals (electricity) from the pressure relief channels (fire). In essence, the pathways that carry electricity are isolated from the routes designed to vent heat, flames and gases during a failure. The design is intended to manage thermal runaway, a dangerous chain reaction in lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries where rising heat overwhelms the cooling system and can lead to fire. Keeping these two systems apart also blocks hot gases from spreading toward the passenger cabin in the event of a battery malfunction.

Chinese car companies make more vehicles than anyone else on Earth and export more as well. But high tariffs and hostile US-China trade relations have kept them out of the American market.That’s likely to change, according to experts, with Chinese autos hitting US showrooms in the next five to 10 years.

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Waymo will begin fully autonomous operations with its 6th-generation Driver —an important step in bringing our technology to more riders in more cities. This latest system serves as the primary engine for our next era of expansion, with a streamlined configuration that drives down costs while maintaining our uncompromising safety standards. Designed for long-term growth across multiple vehicle platforms, this system’s expanded capabilities allow us to safely broaden our footprint into more diverse environments, including those with extreme winter weather, at an even greater scale.

Entre délocalisations et mutations industrielles, l'industrie automobile française a perdu près de 139 000 emplois entre 2010 et 2023. Une hémorragie qui frappe toute la filière, des constructeurs aux sous-traitants, et pose la question de l'avenir d'un secteur autrefois pilier de l'économie hexagonale.

In late January, an Alphabet-owned Waymo self-driving car was cruising near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, when a young child suddenly darted into the street. Waymo’s LiDAR sensors detected the student, who had just emerged from behind a parked SUV, but it was too late. Despite slamming on the brakes and slowing from 17 to six mph, the driverless car struck the child, knocking them to the pavement. Luckily, reports show that the child only suffered minor injuries, but that’s likely little comfort to parents whose children live in the growing number of cities where driverless cars operate.

Ce mouvement, révélé par une enquête de Reuters publiée le 13 février 2026, marque une nette inflexion par rapport à l’ambition tous-électriques affichée ces dernières années et s’inscrit dans un contexte de retrait progressif des investissements massifs en véhicules à batterie. Depuis fin 2025, le groupe a discrètement remis au catalogue des motorisations diesel sur plusieurs véhicules, allant des utilitaires légers aux berlines compactes et premium.