By Waymo AI Team Autonomous driving is the ultimate challenge for AI in the physical world. At Waymo, we’re solving it by prioritizing demonstrably safe AI, where safety is central to how we engineer our models and AI ecosystem from the ground up. As a result, we’ve built an incredibly … [continued]
Zoox, the robotaxi startup owned by Amazon, has expanded a bit recently, and it is ready to scale up enough that it has secured an EV battery supplier for more EV production. Starting in early 2026, Zoox will be receiving batteries from Panasonic Energy. It will be using 2170 cylindrical … [continued]
Robotaxis may be much better, safer drivers than most humans — maybe — but there’s no doubt that there are still a variety of edge cases where humans would handle a situation better, and there probably always will be. The latest example is a “funny” one (in this case), but … [continued]
There’s news this week that Zipcar is leaving the UK is interesting in multiple ways. I was an early Zipcar user back in 2004–2007. I loved it, and it helped me not own a car. Over the years, I was thus a big proponent of carsharing programs and even tried … [continued]
In this week’s CleanTechnica YouTube gathering, fellow CleanTechnica writers Zach Shahan, Larry Evans, José Pontes, and I over-extended the allotted time of 30 minutes and talked for an hour and fifteen. The discussions were continuous and spontaneous, layered, one topic opening up another. One of the points we raised and … [continued]
Last month during Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, Elon Musk noted that Tesla would soon allow texting while using FSD (“Full Self Driving”). That was potentially going to be a huge step forward. Was Tesla about to let human drivers completely stop supervising the car in FSD mode and do things … [continued]
In an article earlier today about Waymo announcing that it’s going to enter four more cities — Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and St. Louis — one of our readers provided a couple of brilliant comments. Now, let me say that I didn’t mention Tesla in the article, but there’s been a … [continued]
… in Phoenix. As the self-driving vehicle company announced a couple months ago, it has partnered with DoorDash for the Phoenix metro area. Now, it has arrived. “Starting today, customers who select the Standard delivery option at participating DashMart locations will be automatically eligible for fully autonomous delivery by Waymo … [continued]
Waymo is clearly at a big scaling-up phase of its life. I expected it to expand a lot in 2025 and 2026, but not as much as it is doing. This week, Waymo sped forward again with announcements of four more cities it is going to enter soon. The cities … [continued]
Jonathan Slotkin’s recent analysis of Waymo’s safety results in an oped in the New York Times has sparked a new round of discussion about how society should think about autonomous vehicles. His framing is direct. He argues that the data looks like the kind of early clinical trial result that … [continued]
