Monthly Archives: August 2025

In August 2025, Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., obtained from the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) the first-ever permit to conduct autonomous vehicle testing in New York City. This decision represents a significant milestone in the development of automated transport technologies under metropolitan conditions, which are widely considered among the most complex in the world due to traffic dynamics and density of interactions.

On Friday, August 1, 2025, a jury in Miami, Florida, USA, ruled that Tesla, as the vehicle manufacturer, was liable for the malfunction of the Autopilot feature in the Model S, which contributed to the death of one person and significant injuries to another.