Autonomous Vehicles

Baidu's Apollo Go will give Tung Chung residents free self-driving rides from 21 Oct to 3 Nov, a Transport Department paper shows.

Dubai's RTA began a four-week Glydways pod pilot at Bluewaters. Capacity and cost figures are RTA claims; dates, fares and public access are unclear.

Pony.ai and Uber say Gen-7 robotaxi testing in London starts in the coming weeks. It is a plan: no fleet size, operator or passenger date has been given.

XPENG named its robotaxi XPENG YOYO and opened invitation-code registration in China on 8 October. It is not a full launch, and the claims are XPENG's own.

Waymo says it closed a $5B term loan, its first debt financing. Bloomberg's 5.25-point pricing is still only reported. What is confirmed and what is not.

A Tesla Cybercab lost a door panel in a Philadelphia crash, with fault unknown and no Tesla AV certificate in Pennsylvania. Updated 10 Oct with the Texas registry count, NHTSA's 30 October deadline and Tesla's own claim of 300+ Cybercabs serving Austin. What is reported, what is confirmed, and what we don't know. Waymo, XPENG and Pony.ai/Uber stories now have their own posts.

Waymo’s own blog says it is adding a silver Ojai variant with interior trim updates, a wireless phone charger, new seats and rear armrests, ramping production in Mesa, Arizona, with rider service due first in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

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