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Dubai Draws the Robotaxi Map One Street at a Time

Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority is mapping its robotaxi rollout one cleared lane at a time — a street-level demonstration of the operational design domain, the most honest engineering artefact in autonomous systems. The ODD defines not just where a system operates but what evidence must accumulate before that boundary moves. Most enterprise machine-learning deployments ship without one, and that absence is the quiet risk Dubai's cones make visible.