In autonomous and self-driving vehicle news are WeRide, Grab, Baidu Apollo, Lucid, Nuro, Pony.ai, TIER IV and Elm. WeRide & Grab Autonomous Shuttles in PunggolWeRide announced the deployment of its GXRs and Robobus vehicles in Singapore under Ai.R, Grab’s first consumer-facing autonomous vehicle service. The WeRide vehicles, certified under Singapore’s Milestone 1 safety assessment, will begin with a route familiarization phase before opening to passengers in early 2026. The approval, shared with Baidu’s Apollo Go and WeRide, marks Dubai’s first wave of on-road autonomous driving permits. TIER IV and Elm in Saudi ArabiaTIER IV has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia’s Elm to accelerate the development of sovereign autonomous mobility solutions and cultivate local engineering talent.