• Hyundai Motor Co. will start delivering electric Ioniq 5 SUVs to Waymo to serve as robotaxis on the company’s ride-hailing platform, the automaker announced at its Aug. 26 investor day event.
• The vehicles will enable the international expansion of robotaxi services as early as 2027 and will be built at the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Georgia using a local supply chain. The Waymo robotaxis will leverage the automaker’s expertise in manufacturing, design, software and finance, per the release. 
• Hyundai will also make use of robotaxi-ready Ioniq 5 SUVs as part of its Motional joint venture, which plans to deploy the vehicles later this year as fully driverless.

I'm guessing this is just promo pricing but it's cheaper than I expected

The hardest part of scaling autonomous driving is not just collecting more data. It is learning from the rare, safety-critical scenarios that are easy to miss inside massive datasets.

Mobileye’s approach to long-tail learning: using AI agents and vision-language models to discover difficult scenarios, identify reproducible failure patterns, and generate targeted variations for training and validation.

1M unsupervised miles already!

In the next few years, many large companies will be adding to the overall AV fleet size.

Here is conservative prediction of numbers:

I would say this is similar to the massive release of scooters and e-bikes.
Between their launch in 2017 to the peak in 2019, the US fleet size went from ~50,000 to ~200,000. Then the severe backlash reduced the fleet size to ~120,000 in 2020.

Is America ready for this?

And will we see a similar blowback (vandalism) that happened to the scooters/e-bikes?