The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/29/get-ready-for-uber-robotaxis-to-start-rolling-in-sf-next-year/In partnership with an electric car company and an autonomous tech company, Uber is getting back into the robotaxi business, ten years after its first rushed attempt to put autonomous vehicles on the road. Remember when former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick decided to disrupt things with some wholly unpermitted, untested autonomous vehicles that started appearing in San Francisco in December 2016? That early attempt to get ahead in the robotaxi wars turned into a high-profile battle with the California DMV, which got those auonomous vehicles yanked off the streets a week later. Uber went on to continue testing its self-driving Volvos in Tempe, Arizona, leading to a c

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