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Autonomous vehicles

18 items mentioning this topic across 4 issues, newest first.

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Waymo starts robotaxi testing in Madrid
Driverless cars will start running in Alcobendas, Getafe and Madrid in the coming days, with commercial trips planned from 2027.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · El País
Think Densely, Act Sparsely: Latent Expert Cognitive Chains for Vision-Language-Action Autonomous Driving
Autonomous driving fundamentally demands dense understanding of visual, semantic, and geometric information, yet existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are typically trained with sparse…
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · arXiv 2610.25734 · Evidence: Preprint
A Semantic Knowledge Graph Construction Pipeline for Vehicle Intention Prediction in nuScenes
Knowledge graphs (KGs) are increasingly used in autonomous driving (AD) to make traffic scene entities and relations explicit for prediction and reasoning.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · arXiv 2610.26528 · Evidence: Preprint
FAV Summit 2026
Future of autonomous vehicles.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · 11–13 Nov 2026

London's self-driving taxis spark safety and traffic concerns
Uber launched the UK's first autonomous taxi service in September with 15 Ford Mustang Mach-Es using Wayve's 'AV 2.0' AI; experts are split on a wider rollout.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · Autocar
Scene-Adaptive VLA: Efficient Autonomous Driving via Dynamic Layer Routing
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising paradigm for autonomous driving.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · arXiv 2610.24590
STRIDE: Evaluating Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Driving Edge Cases
In autonomous driving, perceiving surrounding objects is not enough: failing to understand how they move and interact over time can lead to dangerous decisions.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · arXiv 2610.22795

Euronews rides Europe's first robotaxi in Zagreb
The service runs with local firm Verne and Pony.ai and plans to expand across Europe.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · Euronews
Cities move to rein in robotaxis
With federal rules stalled, cities and states are writing their own AV rules.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · The Verge
NHTSA weighs Tesla school-zone probe
Reports say Model Y and Cybercab robotaxis broke school-zone speed limits.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · The Verge
AUCON
Autonomous vehicle conference.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · 24–25 Nov 2026

Waymo robotaxis head to Canada
Waymo announced its expansion into Canada.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · TechCrunch
Uber robotaxi trial in Manchester
Uber has begun a self-driving robotaxi trial in the city.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · The Guardian
Uber and Pony.ai plan London robotaxis
Uber and China's Pony.ai plan to launch robotaxis in London.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · TechCrunch
Fines for blocking first responders
US robotaxi operators will face fines when their vehicles block first responders.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · TechCrunch
Do better visual representations always lead to better driving?
Tests whether better visual representations reliably improve end-to-end autonomous driving.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · arXiv
Autonomous Vehicles & AI Europe Conference
A conference on AVs and AI.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · 16–17 Nov 2026, Frankfurt
Autonomous Vehicles – Challenges and Opportunities for the Economy and National Defense
The 4th scientific and technical conference, run by Łukasiewicz–PIMOT.
In the issue · 13 AI Transportation · 18–19 Nov 2026, Warsaw