This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 14, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Telemetry has published its first automated driving systems (or ADS) scorecard report. This report evaluates and ranks the leading companies developing Level 4 ADS for robotaxis, roboshuttles, and middle-mile and long-haul deliveries based on criteria such as vision, go-to-market strategy, production strategy, technology, safety strategy,

Telemetry’s Industry Insights Report Finds 2025 Marked Breakthrough Year with Robotaxis Scaling Globally and Driverless Trucks Operating on Public Roads DETROIT, MI – January 14, 2026  – After two decades of development, automated driving systems are finally starting to achieve meaningful commercial scale, with robotaxi operations delivering hundreds of thousands of paid rides weekly and driverless trucks making daily freight runs on public highways, according to the 2026 ADS

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 13, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Yesterday in Detroit, General Motors CEO and Chair Mary Barra took part in what has become something of an annual tradition, a fireside chat with the president of the Automotive Press Association, who this year is Kalea Hall from Thomson Reuters. This year, the event moved from its usual December timing to early January to coincide with t

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 8, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Automakers have been using radar sensors on vehicles for more than two decades as a core part of their driver assistance systems, particularly for adaptive cruise control. Radar has some distinct advantages over cameras, most notably that it can detect in total darkness as well as through atmospheric obstructions like fog, rain, or snow. R

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  January 7, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   While there are a lot fewer automakers officially participating in CES 2026 than in the past decade, that doesn't mean there isn't still an auto industry presence, especially when it comes to sensors. There are multiple lidar vendors showing off their wares in Las Vegas this week, including Hesai, Innoviz, and Microvision. Hesai is by far

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 6, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   During a keynote presentation at CES 2026, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang again focused on his company's efforts around artificial intelligence, including the announcement of a next-generation Rubin GPU chip. But a significant portion of the event was dedicated to automated driving. This included a discussion of how Nvidia has built t

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  January 5, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.  Kodiak AI is one of two companies currently operating driverless tractor-trailers in the U.S., with the other being Aurora. Last May, Aurora launched driverless over-the-road long-haul freight operations in Texas. While Kodiak and several other companies are also testing automated trucks across the American south, Kodiak was the first to a

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  December 22, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Automated vehicles have a lot of theoretical advantages over human drivers. They don't get drunk or drowsy or distracted. They can, in theory, see obstacles sooner than humans and in conditions where humans might not be able to see. They should be able to drive closer together without colliding. All of these factors should eventually le

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for December 17, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   In March 2023, General Motors upset a lot of Apple iPhone users when it announced that it would not include support for smartphone projection, including CarPlay, on its new electric vehicles. These vehicles all use Android Automotive with Google Automotive Services for their infotainment. This allows drivers to use Google Maps and Assist

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  December 16, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   In the late 2010s, as the automated driving startup segment was booming, so too were related businesses like lidar. At one stage, there were upwards of 100 lidar startups vying to help enable automated vehicles, and one of the most promising of the lot was Luminar. However, just as most of the companies developing automated driving syst

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for December 15, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Ford announced another major restructuring of its electrification plans that will include $14 billion in non-cash charges and $5.5 billion in cash charges this quarter. The changes include the cancellation of an electric truck that was to have been produced at the new BlueOval City factory in Tennessee, ending production of the current F

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