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Croatia becomes Europe's first country with a paid commercial robotaxi service, as Verne, Pony.ai, and Uber open Gen-7 autonomous rides to the public in Zagreb.

China has opened a public comment period on a mandatory national standard for L2 driver-assistance systems, signaling a tighter safety baseline for intelligent connected vehicles.

Select Uber employees in San Francisco can now hail Nuro-equipped Lucid Gravity SUVs through the rideshare app, a critical deployment milestone ahead of a public robotaxi launch planned for later in 2026.

Tesla's next-generation AI5 processor has completed tape-out, reaching the final design milestone before mass production, with volume deployment not expected until 2027.

Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA America and Uber begin testing autonomous ID. Buzz minivans in Los Angeles, targeting commercial robotaxi service by late 2026 and fully driverless operations with 500-plus vehicles by mid-2027.

Kodiak AI completes its first autonomous trucking demonstrations outside the Sun Belt on Interstate 70 in Ohio and Indiana, as the Level 4 autonomous trucking market accelerates toward a projected $7.8 billion by 2036.

Tesla begins Cybercab mass production at Giga Texas, targeting one unit every ten seconds, as its Austin robotaxi service logs 14 crashes and operates fewer than ten unsupervised vehicles.

Chinese AV firm WeRide and Southeast Asian superapp Grab begin public autonomous rides in Singapore's Punggol district, marking the city-state's first driverless service open to everyday residents.

Kleiner Perkins leads the largest defense tech raise of 2026, more than doubling Saronic's valuation as the company expands shipyards and targets 20 vessels a year by 2027.

A TechCrunch investigation identifies at least six incidents where police and firefighters had to manually drive Waymo vehicles during emergencies, including an Austin mass shooting and a California wildfire.

Waymo's weekly paid robotaxi trips have grown tenfold in under two years, reaching 500,000 across 10 cities even as school bus safety incidents draw federal scrutiny

A fleet of 100 Huaneng Ruichi battery-electric haul trucks at an Inner Mongolia coal mine has operated autonomously for ten months, setting records for payload, speed, and cold-weather endurance while cutting 48,000 tonnes of CO2 annually and replacing 300 diesel trucks.