This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for March 19, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. It’s been over a decade since former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick decided his company needed to eliminate human drivers by developing robotaxis. As we know, that didn't turn out so well, and the group was sold off to Aurora in 2020. While Uber is no longer in the business of building an automated driving system or ADS, it still has dreams of be

Telemetry has released its third research report of the year, Improving Radar Performance for Physical AI Systems , examining how advances in radar sensing and signal processing will shape autonomous vehicles, robotics, and other AI-enabled machines. The report was authored by Sam Abuelsamid, Telemetry's vice president of market research. Reliable sensing is a fundamental requirement for any machine operating outside controlled environments. Radar remains one of the few senso

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for March 16, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. At Nvidia's GTC conference in San Jose this week, the world's leading developer of graphics processing chips announced several new partnerships with automakers to use some or all of its Hyperion Drive automated driving system. First up is Hyundai Motor Group, which has already been utilizing Nvidia GPUs as part of the compute stack for its

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for March 13, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Yesterday, Lucid Motors held its first-ever investor day in New York and began to reveal key technical details of its business and product plan for the next several years. Like most automakers, Lucid is targeting increasing levels of driving automation for its new products and hopes that consumers will be willing to pay a subscription for t

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for March 12, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Honda has become the latest automaker to unplug its plans to launch new electric vehicles in the North American market. Honda had been planning to launch three new electric vehicles to be built in Ohio starting this year on a new dedicated electric vehicle chassis. The first of those was a new midsize crossover coupe for Acura called the RS

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for March 11, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. The Middle East war that was sparked by American and Israeli attacks on Iran less than two weeks ago could spark a revival in interest for electric vehicles if it continues for any length of time. While oil prices have settled back a bit since last week, when Brent crude briefly hit $120/barrel, we almost certainly have not seen the end of

The autonomous trucking debate has spent years focused on whether the technology can handle the road. Our latest research suggests the industry has been asking the wrong question. Telemetry's new report, "Automated Trucks Should Be Built In a Factory," argues that Level 4 ADS has matured past development. The bottleneck now is manufacturing, and the support infrastructure fleets need before they'll commit to buying at scale. FreightWaves broke down the findings this week, in

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for March 10, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. It's not often that a cheap vehicle gets a lot of attention from enthusiasts. But in spring 2025, that's exactly what happened when a startup called Slate Auto came out of stealth mode and revealed its first product. With significant backing from Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos, Slate aimed to introduce a highly customizable, compact electric

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for March 9, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. With strong government support for transitioning its vehicle fleet to electrification, Chinese automakers, battery vendors, and other suppliers have managed to race ahead of the rest of the world on moving away from burning fossil fuels for transportation. Chinese consumers have far more options for electric vehicles at every price point and

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for March 4, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. During an Automotive Press Association event at Scout Motors' Novi, Michigan tech center this morning, CEO Scott Keogh provided some updates on the status of the new startup automaker launched within the Volkswagen Group. The Scout brand was inherited by VW when its Traton Truck group acquired International several years ago, and in 2022, VW

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for February 24, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 led to substantial changes for federal tax incentives toward electric vehicle purchases in the U.S. The previous system that allowed every automaker to be eligible for tax credits of up to $7,500 on the first 200,000 EVs sold was scrapped. The program allowed the same credits, with no sa

Telemetry has released a new research report, “Automated Trucks Should Be Built in a Factory,” examining what it will take for automated trucking to move from limited deployments to repeatable, commercial-scale operations. The report was prepared by Sam Abuelsamid, Telemetry’s vice president of market research, and focuses on Level 4 automated systems for heavy-duty trucks. “Automated trucking has a credible commercial path, but scaling it depends on industrial discipline,” s