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Two Zoox purpose-built electric robotaxis driving on a city street

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Zoox Wins NHTSA Approval for Paid Robotaxi Rides

NHTSA approved Zoox to deploy up to 2,500 purpose-built robotaxis annually for two years, with paid Las Vegas rides planned for August.

Haye KestelooJul 304 min read

Vegas Loop

Boring Company Director Puts Real Numbers On The Vegas Loop, Including The One That Undercuts His Own Pitch

Boring Company director Mike Baier says the Vegas Loop hits 40,000 riders on peak days and beats most US light rail. The typical day tells another story.

Haye KestelooJul 27

Robotaxi

Tesla Cybercabs Surface in Charlotte, Giving the Giga Texas Pile Its First Visible Destination

Fourteen Tesla Cybercabs and 14 Model Ys with Texas plates appeared in a Charlotte lot as Tesla hires a safety operator, setting up a race with Waymo.

Haye KestelooJul 27

Robotaxi

Tesla Cybercab Hits Public Roads in New Zealand, Caked in Winter Testing Grime

A Tesla Cybercab appeared on a public New Zealand road in footage surfacing July 24, 2026, wearing local plates and a month of test grime, in what appears to be the first video of the robotaxi moving under its own power outside the US.

Haye KestelooJul 24

Rows of gold Tesla Cybercab vehicles staged in a parking lot at Gigafactory Texas

Robotaxi

Tesla Stages 245 Cybercabs at Giga Texas, Hitting EVXL's 200-Unit Call Ten Weeks Early

A drone flyover of Gigafactory Texas on July 18, 2026 captured 245 Tesla Cybercab units staged across Austin factory lots, more than double the 102 cars observers counted five weeks earlier.

Haye KestelooJul 19

Robotaxi

Tesla Adds 58 Robotaxis To Texas Fleet In One Day

Tesla's Texas robotaxi tracker jumped by 58 vehicles on July 15, pushing the company's registered fleet in the state to 175 and marking its biggest one-day increase in the public Texas DMV-based tracker yet.

Haye KestelooJul 15

Tesla driver with hands off the wheel while FSD Supervised navigates a Dutch highway

FSD

Tesla FSD Outdrives Humans in the Data While Europe Approves It One Border at a Time

A Dutch driver logs 10,000 FSD kilometers only to switch it off at the German border. RDW's own data shows fewer incidents than human driving, but 22 of 27 EU states still haven't approved it.

Haye KestelooJul 12

Regulation

NHTSA Chief Says Agency Will 'Absolutely' Consider Dropping Steering Wheel Rule for Driverless Cars

NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison said the agency will consider ending steering wheel requirements for fully driverless vehicles, a potential regulatory opening for Tesla's steering-wheel-free Cybercab.

Haye KestelooJul 10

Robotaxi

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