According to Sawyer Merritt, Lucid has announced its production-intent robotaxi vehicle developed in collaboration with Group, Nuro, and Uber, aimed at launching a global robotaxi service. The AI-driven robotaxi leverages a sophisticated sensor suite including high-resolution cameras, solid-state lidar, and radar to enable advanced autonomous navigation and safety features. The vehicle features Uber-designed in-cabin experiences such as halo-mounted LEDs for rider identification, real-time visualization of the robotaxi's perception and planned path, and interactive screens for ride personalization. The system runs on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor, part of the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform, ensuring robust AI compute for real-time decision-making. Lucid’s robotaxi is expected to begin production in Arizona later this year, presenting significant business opportunities in autonomous mobility and AI-driven transportation, as cited by Sawyer Merritt (source: https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2008330422615261197).

According to @aelluswamy, Tesla's VP of AI, in his latest ICCV 2024 presentation, Tesla leverages its global vehicle fleet to collect the equivalent of 500 years of driving data daily, giving it a significant data advantage in autonomous vehicle AI development (Sawyer Merritt, 2025). The curse of dimensionality is tackled by compressing billions of tokens generated from 8 high-frame-rate cameras into essential correlations between sensor input and control actions. Tesla’s smart data triggers capture rare driving scenarios, ensuring robust model training beyond routine highway driving. The company’s custom Gaussian splatting system enables rapid, high-fidelity 3D scene reconstruction for enhanced debugging and interpretability, while natural language querying allows engineers to examine model decisions. Tesla also introduced a proprietary neural video simulator that can generate fully synthetic multi-camera data for reinforcement learning and adversarial testing, supporting iterative model improvement and real-world robustness. These advancements are paving the way for Tesla's global robotaxi rollout, the Cybercab two-seater, and even humanoid robots powered by the same neural networks, opening new business opportunities in mobility and robotics (ICCV 2024, YouTube).