During one of the American-Statesman's Tesla robotaxi rides, the safety monitor intervened as the vehicle navigated traffic and construction.

The company's chief safety officer testified before lawmakers on Wednesday, Feb. 4, less than two weeks after a child was hit by a Waymo vehicle

A new $16 billion Waymo cash infusion is a threat to Tesla's plans for supremacy in the self-driving car industry. The funding came from Alphabet and other investors.

Elon Musk admitted something Tesla bulls didn’t want to hear: the Cybercab and Optimus rollout will be “agonizingly slow.” While Tesla stumbles on promises made years ago, Waymo (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is already operating robotaxis in San Francisco,

Tesla is now reporting the paid robotaxi miles in the quarterly. It was about 200,000 miles in December. Tesla now has 500+ cars in Austin and SF Bay Area and

Tesla’s robotaxis are not robotaxis in the sense that they’re not fully driverless and still feature safety monitors with access to a kill switch in case anything goes wrong. But the automaker is shaking things up with its approach to pricing, according to a new analysis of the nascent market.

Robotaxi pioneer Waymo has raised another $16 billion to help fuel its ambition for its fleet of self-driving cars to provide rides throughout the world while other deep-pocketed rival services backed by Tesla and Amazon try to catch up.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit Waymo is reportedly seeking to raise approximately $16 billion in a new financing round, aiming for a valuation close to $110 billion. Alphabet To Participate According to a Reuters report citing Bloomberg,