Starting this month, certain employees of Valley Metro in Phoenix, Arizona, will be able to use an autonomous shuttle from Waymo to get back and forth to work. It is part of an experiment to figure out how self-driving cars and public transportation can work together.
Doug Field, the engineer who helped get the Tesla Model 3 into production, has rejoined the Project Titan team at Apple. Does that mean Apple is back in the race to develop cars that drive themselves?
Waymo has begun partnering with Valley Metro in Phoenix to connect people with the public transportation system using its fleet of autonomous cars from Chrysler.
Waymo has amassed 5 billion simulated autonomous miles and more than 8 million real world miles in autonomous vehicles on its way to becoming the largest taxi and limousine company in the US. But it has more on its mind than just self driving cars.
The first three Jaguar I-PACE electric SUVs intended for Waymo’s self driving service has arrived in San Francisco, where they are being used to calibrate the autonomous driving systems and develop a knowledge base of maintenance information. Waymo expects to have 20,000 of them in revenue service by 2020.
An unnamed European manufacturer has ordered 8 million self-driving systems from Mobileye with deliveries to begin in 2021. Autonomous driving cars are coming whether we want them or not.
Researchers say the longer a car drives in autonomous mode, the longer it takes human drivers to take back control of the car in an emergency.
Waymo and Tesla are approaching AV tech from different directions. But will other companies win the autonomous driving sweepstakes?
An Uber car operating in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona last weekend. Now, the “experts” are beginning to gather.
A video of the fatal accident involving an Uber car operating in autonomous mode and a pedestrian has been released. It raises as many questions as it answers.
