The Driverless Digest

NEWS: The Nevada Transportation Authority has issued @Uber subsidiary Aviari Services, LLC its Autonomous Vehicle Network Company permit, dated October 22, 2026. The permit allows Uber to connect passengers with fully autonomous vehicles for paid rides in Nevada. It caps Aviari at 1,000 fully autonomous vehicles in total during the first 12 months. Operations are limited to the area approved in the NTA's September 22 Compliance Order, and any geofence change needs written notice to the NTA first. Uber joins Zoox, Tesla, and Waymo with an AVNC in Nevada.

Uber is so fucking shady. The so called “People’s First Transportation Alliance” is actually funded by Uber. A more accurate name would have been the Uber First Transportation Alliance. They are hiding the fact that they’re funding this anti-autonomy group, and listed a bunch of “founding members” of the group that had no clue their names were being used! They just organized a protest against a bill that would bring autonomous driving to DC in 2028, demanding human drivers be required well past then. DC is such a critical city for autonomy, because we need congress to be able to try the technology for themselves. The fact that they can’t is holding federal autonomy legislation back. Fuck Uber and everyone involved in this group. They want people to die so they can make money continuing to exploit their drivers.

New: A poll backed by some of the anti-Waymo labor unions finds 58 percent of DC voters opposed to AVs and 22 percent in support. The poll, conducted by the Dem-aligned Public Policy Polling, found Waymo's overall favorability at 19 percent to 42 percent unfavorable.