Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Autonomous Vehicles for the week ending August 28, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A 16:9 mid-1980s murder-mystery movie poster of a wide gothic Victorian mansion in stark black-and-white pen-and-ink engraving on pure black, titled 'Autonomous' in fat rounded white sans-serif letters above the roofline, its arched windows glowing warm amber and holding costumed suspects (a chauffeur clutching a detached steering wheel, a drone operator with empty hands beside a hovering quadcopter, a lone delivery robot) alongside crowded still lifes of LIDAR sensors, HD map scrolls, traffic cones, and toy cars rolling by themselves, with one window showing only the shadow of a driverless car passing an empty seat. In the open center door stands the same silver-haired butler in black tailcoat and white gloves, upright with a knowing half-smile, holding a silver tray with a single envelope sealed with a tiny steering-wheel wax emblem. Dense crosshatching, symmetrical composition, campy spooky theatrical mood, no other text or logos.
This Week in Autonomous Vehicles News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Waymo's new Ojai vehicle: Waymo introduced the Ojai as a new vehicle with the same Waymo Driver, and said Gemini is now available to all Ojai riders. Riders can use it to adjust the AC, seats and lights, skip songs, or ask about the city they're passing through.
- Waymo expands to Munich and Las Vegas: Waymo said it is bringing its driver to Munich, with vehicles arriving in the coming weeks and a fully autonomous ride-hailing launch planned for late 2027. In Las Vegas, The Venetian named Waymo its first official ride-hailing partner in a multi-year deal.
- California market share: Road to Autonomy posted that 100% of California's paid robotaxi rides belong to Waymo. Its two podcasts framed this as a regulatory moat, alongside Tesla's upcoming Cybercab launch in Austin.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Autonomous Vehicles
Gemini in Waymo is now available to all riders in the Ojai. Engage with Google Gemini to: 🔹 Adjust the AC, seats and cabin lights 🔹 Skip the song you’re listening to or turn up the volume 🔹 Ask about the city you’re traveling through 🔹 See trip information including”
https://x.com/Waymo/status/2090891693147013179
100% of California’s Paid Robotaxi Rides Belong to Waymo”
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2091528222391329203
Welcome the Ojai. New vehicle, same Waymo Driver.”
https://x.com/Waymo/status/2093096218314338670
Welcome to the ultimate home tour, Ojai edition. ✨ Join @marthastewart as she highlights what makes this cabin special, featuring spacious seating and intuitive technology.”
https://x.com/Waymo/status/2092990665315512570
Rolling into Vegas in style. 🎰 @VenetianVegas has named Waymo as its first official ride-hailing partner. Through this multi-year partnership, guests traveling to and from The Venetian Resort will enjoy seamless autonomous rides throughout the city.”
https://x.com/Waymo/status/2092658344720810010
This is very nice work from NVIDIA. Like all high-performing approaches on ARC-AGI-3, it uses deep learning-guided on-the-fly synthesis of symbolic world models, i.e. navigating the world by generating programs to represent what you know. To be clear, like with several other”
https://x.com/fchollet/status/2090838046937645398
Excited to bring Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 to the world, this is an update to our anything in, anything out world model. It now supports: – 360p drafts, 4K up samplers – up to 10 seconds of video context when extending – video extensions in 10 second increments – video references”
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2093014204324417881
Joining the MTS stream today at 10am PST to yap about world models and spatial intelligence!”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2090836155906289667
Learning How the World Evolves Extrapolative Video World Models via Latent Dynamics Reasoning paper:
https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/2091958146596041142
Thanks so much for sharing! @_akhaliq 🥰 The core idea is to learn how the world evolves, rather than directly predict what the future looks like. LDR maps past frames into structured latent states and rolls them forward with kinematic integration, learning only the higher-order”
https://x.com/haodongli00/status/2091961954562887884
Much of the autonomous vehicle space is uncharted territory. With more than 200M+ miles driven fully autonomously, we’re one of very few companies that can look to our past to illuminate our future. Here are some fundamental truths shaping how we build AI 👇”
https://x.com/Waymo/status/2092643649892884725
Need a ride to @SphereVegas? Zoox has you covered. You can take a Zoox straight to Sphere, so you can go from the ride to the show. No driving. No parking. No worries.”
https://x.com/zoox/status/2092285336735101256
Nuro’s universal autonomy platform powers vehicles in major metros across the globe, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Houston, and Tokyo. Watch our AI driver navigate Shinagawa at lunch time, tracking pedestrians, sharing the road with cyclists, and nudging around parked”
https://x.com/nuro/status/2092628142179733844
Roughly a month after @Waymo entered the Munich commercial register, the company met with Bavaria’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Hubert Aiwanger.”
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2092624591365828964
Servus, München! 🇩🇪 We’re bringing the Waymo Driver to Germany. Over the coming weeks, our vehicles will arrive in Munich to begin laying the groundwork to launch our fully autonomous ride-hailing service in late 2027! Read more:
https://x.com/Waymo/status/2092251942781149525
This week on Autonomy Signals presented by @KPMG, @gbrulte and @RobGsix discuss @Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab commercial launch and their self-certification path, @Waymo’s California monopoly and @Softbank’s $200M bet on @GravisRobotics. Episode Chapters 0:00 KPMG Sponsor”
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2090863128061820982
This week on Autonomy Markets, @gbrulte and @WaltLightShed analyze @Waymo’s California regulatory moat, @Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab launch in Austin, and why @Uber’s series of supervised launches in Europe are not autonomous. Unsupervised is the metric. Episode Chapters 00:00″
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2091166714830500124
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