{"id":394509,"date":"2025-11-21T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394509\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:18:15","slug":"you-could-soon-see-tesla-robotaxis-on-metro-phoenix-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394509\/","title":{"rendered":"You could soon see Tesla robotaxis on metro Phoenix roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla is now permitted to test its autonomous vehicles in Arizona with safety drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Arizona Department of Transportation approved Tesla\u2019s Transportation Network Company permit, which allows their ride-hailing robotaxis to expand their testing from Austin, Texas into metro Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s robotaxis<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kjzz.org\/business\/2025-07-11\/teslas-autonomous-robotaxis-could-be-coming-to-metro-phoenix-adot-says\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> rely solely<\/a> on cameras and artificial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/robotaxi\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">intelligence<\/a>, unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/waymo.com\/waymo-driver\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Waymo\u2019s<\/a>, which use a combination of cameras, AI, radar and lidar systems.<\/p>\n<p>According to ADOT, Tesla would need an additional permit to test or operate the robotaxis without a safety driver. The company has not submitted for that permit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla is now permitted to test its autonomous vehicles in Arizona with safety drivers. Earlier this week, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":394510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-394509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115587416416415503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}