While Tesla may be unveiling its robotaxi on the streets of Austin, these five companies are leading the robotaxi revolution and haven't suffered quite the same brand damage as Tesla.

Elon Musk reacted Tuesday to the first public sighting of Tesla’s robotaxi prototype testing without a driver, calling it a "beautifully simple design."

Waymo driverless taxis capture troves of video footage in order to operate, but the company reveals very little about how much data is stored—and for how long.

Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), has been working on self-driving cars for years. But now rivals, such as Tesla (TSLA), are starting to catch up. Yahoo Finance Senior Autos Reporter Pras Subramanian takes a closer look at Waymo's rise and the competition.

Autonomous vehicle firm Waymo said it has curtailed its robotaxi service in San Francisco following immigration enforcement protests in the city's Financial District Sunday evening, which led to one of its vehicles being vandalized.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a "tentative" date for the Robotaxi service launch in Austin, Texas. The date, according to a post on X, is "tentatively" June 22, though even Musk doesn't seem too certain about it.

The two approaches could not be more different, in ways that suggest different possible futures for what autonomous vehicles mean for society. That kind of progress hasn’t come cheap. Google parent company Alphabet has sunk billions into the technology,

Here’s some breaking news: the 2026 Tesla Model Y ‘Juniper’ with Full Self Driving (FSD) is a robotaxi. Waymo may have met its match.

“You have a regulatory environment that’s keen to capitalize on these developments,” says Alison Brooks, research vice president for worldwide public safety at IDC. “At the same time, it’s a blue city in a red state that’s predisposed towards alternative vehicles that are more environmentally friendly.”