CES continues to change and adapt, and that spells a solid future for companies with big investments in the technology.

Mercedes-Benz said on Monday it will launch a new advanced driver-assistance system in the United States later this year that lets its vehicles operate autonomously on city streets under driver supervision.

From Waymo’s 100M+ driverless miles to China’s robotaxi scale, safety vs human drivers, EV emissions, and public trust, here are 10 surprising facts.

Uber is using CES to tell the world that it’s still chasing the self-driving car dream. In Las Vegas on Monday, the ride-hailing company announced that it was developing a driverless robotaxi prototype with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle company Nuro.

Business Insider got a tour of Rivian's lab in Palo Alto, where the EV maker's pivot to AI-defined vehicles began and will shape the company's future.

Ford is planning to democratize autonomous driving and offer it at affordable costs by 2028. Ford also developed a new AI assistant

A U.S. House of Representatives committee will hold a hearing on January 13 on legislation that aims to make it easier to deploy autonomous vehicles without human controls.

Nvidia claims that Alpamayo, which uses vision language action AI models, will allow self-driving cars to react to and reason through obstacles.

At CES 2026 in, Nvidia formally introduced its next-generation autonomous driving AI platform, Alpamayo, a move that industry observers say marks the transition of self-driving technology from perception-driven systems to reasoning-oriented intelligence.