The Un-Engineering Lens
A Four-Layer Resilience Architecture for Autonomous Fleets On the evening of March 31, 2026, over 100 Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis simultaneously froze on the elevated expressways of Wuhan, a city of 14 million. Vehicles halted in fast lanes with traffic streaming past. In-car SOS buttons failed. One passenger
Autonomous Vehicles
Waymo is rapidly scaling its robotaxi operations, recently expanding to San Antonio International Airport while recording a tenfold increase in weekly paid trips. The company’s success highlights a growing public acceptance of driverless transportation in complex urban hubs.
Mobile Robotics
Physical AI, Thinner Control, Spatial Memory, TurboQuant, Code Modernization, and the Robotaxi Inflection March 2026 did not politely announce itself. It detonated across every layer of the Physical AI stack—from silicon-level compression to embodied spatial cognition to the streets where robotaxis now compete for passengers—and confirmed several
Autonomous Vehicles
Waymo’s robotaxi service has reached a new milestone at San Antonio International Airport, marking its fourth major airport expansion. The company’s weekly paid trips have grown tenfold in just two years.
Autonomous Vehicles
Waymo has expanded its robotaxi operations to San Antonio International Airport, marking its fourth major aviation hub. The company continues to see skyrocketing ridership, with weekly paid trips growing tenfold in less than two years.
The Un-Engineering Lens
The Great Rewrite: From C/C++ Spaghetti to Memory-Safe Rust Microservices How DARPA TRACTOR, AI Agent Teams, and Regulatory Pressure Are Forcing the Largest Code Migration in History The Ticking Clock on Unsafe Code Seventy percent of all disclosed security vulnerabilities in large systems trace back to a single
Autonomous Vehicles
Waymo's commercial expansion has reached a fever pitch, with paid weekly trips increasing tenfold as the company scales its operations across major US metros.
Autonomous Vehicles
Waymo's weekly paid robotaxi trips have surged tenfold in less than two years, signaling a major shift in public acceptance and commercial viability for autonomous transport.
Autonomous Vehicles
Waymo's robotaxis are facing new real-world challenges as first responders are increasingly forced to manually intervene and move autonomous vehicles during active crime scenes and emergency situations.
Autonomous Vehicles
Waymo’s robotaxis are facing a new hurdle: the need for human intervention. TechCrunch reports that first responders have had to physically take control of and move Waymo vehicles at active crime scenes and emergency sites.
SDV
On March 24, Google dropped what may be the most consequential announcement in the software-defined vehicle space this year. Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles — AAOS SDV — extends Google’s open-source automotive platform from infotainment deep into the vehicle architecture: body control, instrument cluster, core compute, cameras,
Autonomous Vehicles
Amazon-owned Zoox is expanding its robotaxi testing to Austin and Miami, moving closer to a commercial launch. After two years of intensive mapping and validation in these cities, the purpose-built autonomous vehicle is ready for public roads.