Brad Templeton
Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
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- How Can Robotaxis Handle Demand Surges? 18 Sept 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes Handling heavy load can be a big challenge, but there are many solutions, including smart, detour-free pooling to save the day.
- Want To Buy A Tesla Cybercab? The Economics Should Scare You 15 Sept 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes Tesla will control all aspects of operation and control all flow of money, so they have little motive to pay owners more than "barely enough" if even that. See the Math
- Robotaxis Accused Of Deadheading, Curb/Charger Hogging. Is That Fair? 10 Sept 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes Streets are for people, not robots. But what about the people the robots are serving? How to balance the conflicts about curb, charger and street use.
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- Tesla Cybercab Has Much To Like As A Robotaxi For 2031 8 Sept 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes The 2 seat efficient design and other features give the Cybercab an edge, but its low cost won't be important until the next decade, so why is Tesla going cheap first?
- Zoox Robotaxi Goes To Airport In Las Vegas; Here's How It Should Work 8 Sept 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes The Airport will be a major Zoox destination for visitors, but today robotaxis need to improve how they do Airports. What's the ideal approach?
- Waymo's Ojai Is Now Open To Public. My Experience Spoke To The Future 21 Aug 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes Waymo's Chinese-made Ojai is now available to the public and it's a comfy ride. Will it outcompete the others, and what will it be like when the prices drop?
- Rides In Waymo's Ojai Help Reveal Robotaxi Future 19 Aug 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes In 2017, I forecast that robotaxis would be the path for Chinese cars into the USA. It's happened. What do the economics of Chinese robotaxis look like?
- Waymo Fatality Likely Not-At-Fault: Here Are New Details And What-Ifs 10 Aug 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes A Waymo was involved in a pedestrian fatality in Dallas. New details suggest they were not at fault, and could not have prevented events. But could superhuman robocars do more?
- "Full Serve" EV Charging Is Coming From Self-Driving. We re Not Ready. 6 Aug 2026 Topic: Going Green Robocars Tags: forbes Soon, most EVs will be able to drive themselves slowly to nearby chargers. This will lead to the rise of "full serve" charging where a human or robot plugs the car in
- Studying Fault In Robotaxi Crashes; Teslas Not Getting Hit Enough 5 Aug 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes To study robocar crashes, it becomes necessary to try to estimate who was at fault. Tesla's few crashes suggest they just aren't driving much. Waymo and Zoox fault counts are bet…
- San Jose Plans $13B BART Subway Extension. How About <$1B? 30 Jul 2026 Topic: Transportation Tags: forbes BART is failing, but the plan to expand it involves extravagant cost to duplicate its almost 70 year old design. New technology might serve riders for far less
- Can Self Driving Improve New Transit Even More Than It Does Cars? 23 Jul 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes Self-driving cars are often depicted as "just more cars" and thus bad news for cities and transit. But what if self-driving could be the salvation of transit?
- Waymo And Uber Support Bad, Incumbent-Protecting Laws In DC And NJ 21 Jul 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes Requiring human drivers, 3 sensors, fat permit fees and per-mile taxes are the wrong sorts of regulations, and the companies should avoid endorsing them
- Waymo Releases Apples-To-Apples Incident Data, It Speaks To Regulation 7 Jul 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes More data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents
- Robotaxi Companies Need To Stop It With The Right Seat Safety Drivers 7 Jul 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea
- On Making an impossibly accurate prediction on robocars, and why Elon Musk keeps failing with his predictions 27 May 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes 13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spo…
- Waymos Have Trouble With Floods, Which Is Surprising 23 May 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes Figuring out the depth of water should be easy for a car with 3D sensors. So why is Waymo having so much trouble tracking flooding?
- Two Waymo Airport Stories Teach A Lesson About Customer Service 12 May 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes A Waymo left a rider at the airport without his bags. Another had a flat tire on the way to the airport. Incidents like this teach hard lessons about customer service.
- The L.A. Olympics Are In Two Years, Perhaps Too Soon For Much 21st Century Transportation 5 May 2026 Topic: Robocars Tags: forbes Flying cars, self-driving vans and full traffic metering probably can't be fully ready in 2028, but some modern technology can help to reduce the traffic nightmare.
- How to watch the 2026 Total Eclipse in Spain 24 Apr 2026 Topic: Best Of Blog Air Travel Photography Here's the video I made in 2024 on watching a total solar eclipse, the most spectacular natural phenomenon you can see on the Earth. Below, I have some updates for what's…
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Moving a robotaxi's safety driver from the steering wheel to the passenger seat is a bad idea dressed up as a milestone.
Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea
Robotaxi Companies Need To Stop It With The Right Seat Safety Drivers Said 7 Jul 2026
Robotaxis should be judged and regulated on comparable fleet-wide incident data, not on individual incidents.
More data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents
Waymo Releases Apples-To-Apples Incident Data, It Speaks To Regulation Said 7 Jul 2026
Robotaxis reached London within days of a date predicted for them thirteen years earlier, while most other public forecasts of that date were badly wrong.
13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on.
On Making an impossibly accurate prediction on robocars, and why Elon Musk keeps failing with his predictions Said 26 May 2026
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An electric robotaxi is not simply one more car, and the people who dislike cars in cities are wrong to treat it as one.
Self-driving cars seem to be just more cars, and people who dislike cars don't love that. But the electric robotaxi offers much more potential
Urbanists Hate Cars. Should They Hate Electric Robotaxis? Said 14 Apr 2026
Tesla's robotaxi intervention rate is far better than its consumer self-driving software and far worse than a human driver or Waymo.
That's much better than current FSD, but much worse than humans or Waymo.
Musk: Robotaxis In Austin Need Intervention Every 10,000 Miles Said 22 Apr 2025
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Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea
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