{"id":42469,"date":"2026-01-06T22:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/im-at-ces-in-las-vegas-to-check-out-the-latest-in-autonomous-driving-heres-what-ive-learned-so-far\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:01:30","slug":"im-at-ces-in-las-vegas-to-check-out-the-latest-in-autonomous-driving-heres-what-ive-learned-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/im-at-ces-in-las-vegas-to-check-out-the-latest-in-autonomous-driving-heres-what-ive-learned-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m at CES in Las Vegas to check out the latest in autonomous driving. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned so far."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/695d6dc604eda4732f2e9471?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Lloyd Lee\"\/><figcaption>Business Insider is on the ground at Las Vegas CES 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Lee\/BI<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Robotaxis and autonomous cars once again have a large presence at CES 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Several companies, including Amazon&#039;s Zoox, are providing off-site demos.<\/li>\n<li>Business Insider is providing an on-the-ground look at the latest in the advanced mobility space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Business Insider is taking on CES 2026.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m on the ground in Las Vegas from Tuesday to Thursday, taking in all there is to know about the latest in the driverless space.<\/p>\n<p>Robotaxis and self-driving cars have already had an outsize presence at the tech conference, especially in the previous hype cycle of the late 2010s and early 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed since then. The industry has largely moved on from mere concepts and technology validation to: How are we going to realistically scale autonomy?<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s day one of the conference, and there&#039;s already a lot to take in.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Alpamayo family, which will serve as an autonomous-driving stack for OEMs to deal with those stubborn edge cases \u2014 or the &quot;long tail&quot; of self-driving.<\/p>\n<p>Uber and Nuro showed off an early look at the Lucid Gravity SUV that the companies hope public riders will be able to take by late 2026.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ll be spending less time at keynotes and speaker events and more on real-life demonstrations and meetings with industry leaders and commentators in autonomy<\/p>\n<p>Think of this as my personal notebook, where I jot down everything I&#039;ve learned and seen at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Check back in for more updates.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon-backed Zoox is unlike any other robotaxi<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/695d6865832e0ef1ead7459e?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Zoox robotaxi\"\/><figcaption>Zoox robotaxis line up in front of Resorts World Las Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Lee\/BI<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the first year Zoox, an Amazon-backed robotaxi company, will be giving live demonstrations of its service during CES.<\/p>\n<p>I got to take a ride in one on Monday night in front of Resorts World. (The company tagline that I saw from an ad at the Harry Reid International Airport was: &quot;Don&#039;t just do the Strip. Zoox it.&quot;)<\/p>\n<p>My immediate thoughts were that Zoox feels unlike any other robotaxi or pseudo-robotaxi on the market. It felt more like I was on a theme park ride than in an everyday car we&#039;re familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Waymo&#039;s robotaxis, Zoox is not a regular car you could buy that&#039;s been retrofitted with sensors. The Zoox car is bi-directional \u2014 meaning there&#039;s no real front or back of the car \u2014 and the inside has no steering wheel, just seats.<\/p>\n<p>The robotaxis were clearly a great tourist attraction from what I saw. My Uber driver wasn&#039;t too happy about them.<\/p>\n<p>Uber, Lucid, and Nuro have big plans to scale<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/695d69de832e0ef1ead745ec?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Uber, Lucid, Nuro\"\/><figcaption>Left to right: Uber&#039;s Sarfraz Maredia, Lucid interim CEO Marc Winterhoff, and Nuro cofounder Dave Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Lee\/BI<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Uber, Lucid, and Nuro had a swanky cocktail hour at Fontainebleau Las Vegas, where they quite literally wined and dined a room full of reporters, analysts, and investors: endless glasses of wine and an open bar, lobster tails, jumbo shrimp, too many appetizers to count, and a giant charcuterie board \u2014 the works.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe understandably so? 2026 will be a big year for the three companies.<\/p>\n<p>Uber&#039;s plan is to roll out a robotaxi service by late 2026. The first market is San Francisco, where Uber will directly compete with Waymo. These two companies are partners in other markets, like Austin.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;ve been moving very, very quickly,&quot; Nuro&#039;s co-CEO and cofounder Dave Ferguson said. &quot;We signed this partnership last July. We&#039;re already testing the production-intent vehicles on public roads. And very soon, we&#039;re going to have tens of thousands of them worldwide.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider is on the ground at Las Vegas CES 2026. Lloyd Lee\/BI Robotaxis and autonomous cars once again have a large presence at CES 2026. Several companies, including Amazon&#039;s Zoox, are providing off-site demos. Business Insider is providing an on-the-ground look at the latest in the advanced mobility space. Business Insider is taking on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}