Driverless rideshare service Waymo, owned by Google parent Alphabet, deployed its fleet to New York City this week to begin mapping out the city roads – with humans still sitting behind the wheel while they await a change in state law to allow fully driverless riding.

Also, who can forget Musk’s shocking political-party curveball, which even led Wedbush’s Dan Ives to urge Tesla’s board to impose “ground rules” on such endeavors. In al

"Fewer than ten" Waymo cars are operating in Manhattan and "parts of Downtown Brooklyn," a company spokesperson told Crain's. The vehicles are in town for testing and, at least for now, are being operated by humans.

Tesla is expanding its robotaxi pilot program to the San Francisco Bay Area within the next two months, contingent on regulatory approvals

Alphabet’s Waymo has begun testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Philadelphia, marking its latest step toward expanding robotaxi services nationwide amid intensifying competition with Tesla, which is racing to commercialize its Cybercab platform.

The autonomous vehicle company says it will have a fleet in the city this summer, but the cars won't be available for ride-hailing.

Waymo has 69 times more vehicle days of commercial robotaxi operation in Austin and has had 42 more incidents. This is one incident for every 292 vehicle days of operation. Tesla has had zero collisions while Waymo has had three collisions (aka Actual accidents) in Austin.

Uber Technologies Inc. investors are brushing aside potential threats from self-driving competition to bet that the company has plenty of room to expand in the near term.