Federal regulators opened a recall query on November 6 into whether Waymo's school bus software fix worked, after most reports of its robotaxis passing stopped school buses came after the November 2025 remedy. The query covers 2,895 vehicles and could shape how software recalls, and the AI vision in every fleet, are judged.

GM vowed to drop CarPlay, then gave its 2027 trucks a split screen with the phone on one side and GM's own apps on the other. Its October earnings call showed where the software money really is. Rivian thinks AI will end the argument and Apple wants every screen. Who will own the dashboard?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says DRAM sitting in personal computers is a waste of the world's scarce memory. Carmakers need that same memory, and the older DDR4 and LPDDR4 chips in most 2028 cockpit and driver assistance designs are expected to dry up from 2028. Ford now puts memory inside a $2 billion cost headwind. Who should get the chips, data centers, desktops or the cars that cannot borrow memory from the cloud?

The man who once ran Tesla Autopilot now says dropping radar is a weird religious stance that ignores physics. GM is betting on lidar, radar and cameras for its 2028 eyes-off system, Waymo says weak sensing flattens the safety curve, and Tesla is sending camera-only Cybercabs into Austin anyway. Meanwhile humanoid and outdoor robot makers are running the same experiment on a very different budget. Which side of the sensor fight ends up right?

Under a per-mile service arrangement, Kodiak AI and DTL Transport have come to terms on 75 planned driverless trucks. Our piece looks at the hardware, the evidence of uptime and the route plans that go with it.

Sparknify is joining TADA to support eight Taiwanese smart vehicle suppliers at the Taiwan Mobility Pavilion at CES 2027, LVCC West Hall Booth #4577, January 6 to 9. Cameras, depth sensing, edge AI, central compute, automotive memory, SiC power and OTA software are all on show, and buyers can book meetings before the show opens. Which part of your vehicle or robot stack are you sourcing next?