Connected and Autonomous Vehicles:
- Toyota and Waymo Advance Autonomous Driving Collaboration. “Building on the preliminary agreement announced in April 2025, Toyota and Waymo will begin initial operations to test and validate an autonomous Toyota bZ4X fleet in Japan in 2027, with deployment to the United Kingdom and other Waymo-serviced markets planned for the following years.
Waymo and Toyota to test AV fleet in Japan in 2027 (Waymo). This partnership marks a major milestone in the expansion of Japan’s first fully autonomous ride-hailing service using high-volume, domestically manufactured vehicles.” And…Waymo Confirms It Will Split With Uber in January 2028.
- Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and Tesla Launches Robotaxi in Fort Worth, a City Missing From Its Next-Up List and Ex-Tesla Autopilot Head Calls Vision-Only a ‘Weird Religious Stance’. “GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson, who ran Tesla’s TSLA 0.00%↑ Autopilot program in 2015 and 2016, says dropping radar for a camera-only self-driving system is ‘a weird religious stance that ignores physics.’”
- UGA partners with UW-Madison on $15M Rural Autonomous Vehicle Project.
- BMW Moved 1 Million Cars Inside Plants Without Drivers.
- Stoneridge and Kodiak AI Announce Collaboration to Advance Autonomous Commercial Vehicles.
- BMW is Taking on Tesla’s FSD with Urban Driver Assist Starting in 2027.
- Kodiak Lands First Commercial Deal to Supply Driverless Trucks for Public Highways.
