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Waymo says its fleet has driven more than 170 million miles as of December 2025 and its Waymo Driver system has been involved in 92% fewer serious injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Andrew J. Hawkins / The edge: Waymo claims its fleet has traveled more than 170 million miles as of December…

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Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin is significantly behind Waymo, deploying about 30 cars with safety drivers, compared to Waymo’s 200 cars without human monitors (Jack Ewing/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 25, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “A Ugly Citizen”, with Quinn Nelson The director’s commentary track for Daring…

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Uber begins rolling out fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the United Arab Emirates in December 2024 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 26, 2025

Featured Podcasts [trading places]: Emily Zheng from Pitchbook 📊 | VC secondaries reach $95 billion 🔥 | Ramp 32 billion…

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China’s transportation, logistics and ride-hailing sectors are accelerating mass adoption of autonomous vehicles, threatening the jobs of millions of drivers (Edward White/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 20, 2025

Édouard Blanc / Financial Times: China’s transportation, logistics and ride-hailing sectors are accelerating the mass adoption of autonomous vehicles, threatening…

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The killing of a cat by a Waymo robo-taxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don’t spark the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 16, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Inside the AI Bubble: Debt, Depreciation and Losses – With Gil Luria The Big Technology…

Business & Money

Spirit Airlines to make leave of 270 drivers, demotize more than 100 others

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 28, 2025

In Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 Taxis at Los Angeles International Airport after his Boston arrived on September 1, 2024 in…

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How Namma Yatri, an open source carpooling application, forced Uber, Ola and Rapido to adopt its subscription model without third order for Pusher Drivers in India (Indulekha Aravind / Stay of World)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 3, 2025

Indulekha Aravind / Rest of the world:: How Namma Yatri, an open source carpooling application, forced Uber, Ola and Rapido…

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Doordash agrees to pay $ 16.75 million to pay legal action by the AG of NY accusing him of poaching customers for delivery drivers between May 2017 and September 2019 (Brendan Pierson / Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 25, 2025

Brendan Pierson / Reuters:: Doordash agrees to pay $ 16.75 million to pay legal action by the AG of NY…

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The list of Paramount-Warner Bros. films. needs animation to compete with Disney and Universal

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American Airlines plans to reintroduce seatback screens

Target faces AFT boycott following ICE response in Minneapolis

Bernie Sanders destroys Trump’s lies about the Iran war

Huge crowd of more than 200,000 people show up for anti-Kings protest in Minnesota

Mike Johnson’s self-destruction means Republicans now own the airport chaos crisis

Republican cavern on TSA funding is a massive victory for Democrats

Trump’s attack on Gavin Newsom backfires and confirms his cognitive decline

A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are wrong, vertical SaaS up +3% in the last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other thoughts on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)

A profile of Mark Lanier, a Texas lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the Los Angeles social media case and said Zuckerberg was “shaken” on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

paid subscriptions more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; employees held a polygraph test for former acting CISA director Madhu Gottumukkala, which failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

A look at the decade-long feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei compared Altman’s legal fight with Musk to Hitler’s fight against Stalin (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: drivers

Waymo says its fleet has driven more than 170 million miles as of December 2025 and its Waymo Driver system has been involved in 92% fewer serious injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin is significantly behind Waymo, deploying about 30 cars with safety drivers, compared to Waymo’s 200 cars without human monitors (Jack Ewing/New York Times)

Uber begins rolling out fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the United Arab Emirates in December 2024 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

China’s transportation, logistics and ride-hailing sectors are accelerating mass adoption of autonomous vehicles, threatening the jobs of millions of drivers (Edward White/Financial Times)

The killing of a cat by a Waymo robo-taxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don’t spark the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Spirit Airlines to make leave of 270 drivers, demotize more than 100 others

How Namma Yatri, an open source carpooling application, forced Uber, Ola and Rapido to adopt its subscription model without third order for Pusher Drivers in India (Indulekha Aravind / Stay of World)

Doordash agrees to pay $ 16.75 million to pay legal action by the AG of NY accusing him of poaching customers for delivery drivers between May 2017 and September 2019 (Brendan Pierson / Reuters)