When Donald Trump assumed office for the second time a year ago, he almost immediately began imposing massive import tariffs on most of the U.S.’s biggest trading partners, including immediate neighbors Canada and Mexico. He also threatened to annex Canada as the 51st state. Canadians quickly realized their neighbor and long-time ally to the south might no longer be their best friend. This week, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney travelled to Beijing and struck a new trade d

Jeep Celebrates 85 Years with Heritage-Themed Wrangler The iconic off-roader gets a nostalgic makeover as the third installment in Jeep's year-long special edition series. Distinctive plaid fabric adorns the seats, dashboards, and door panels, while bronze-finished tow hooks and unique badging honor the brand's eight-and-a-half decades. The Anniversary model rolls on Steel Oxide wheels and includes commemorative medallions throughout the cabin. The Corvette ZR1X Becomes Ameri

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 16, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   As expected, the Trump administration's policies of the past year, including applying massive tariffs on almost all of the U.S. major trading partners and rolling back any and all environmental policies, are starting to have an impact. Ultimately, these policies are going to isolate the U.S. economy from the rest of the world, and if Amer

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