Waymo continues to expand into more cities — quite rapidly these days. The Google spinoff that has been working on self-driving technology for a decade and a half took a long time to go beyond Phoenix, and a long time to go beyond Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area, … [continued]
Amazon’s robotaxi startup Zoox is preparing for the mass production of its purpose-built vehicles at its new factory in California, with Waymo waiting in the wings while Tesla continues to stumble over brand reputation issues.
Learning to drive has long been the marquee milestone for American teenagers coming of age. The freedom and self-reliance that comes with driving to school, hanging out with friends, and running errands for the family can be truly life-changing. With that newfound independence also comes new safety risks for families, … [continued]
Robotaxis may be the future, and they are already here now in some places, but there are still issues to resolve. I’ve seen two quite notable problems pop up in recent days with the two most prominent self-driving brands in the US. Tesla Drives Down A Train Track First of … [continued]
It’s officially summertime now, and there’s always less news in the summer, but the cleantech news never truly pauses globally, so we still have a number of big stories to share from the past week. 1. Tesla’s tiny robotaxi pilot started in Austin, Texas. Tesla fans/shareholders are super enthusiastic about … [continued]
The Wall Street Journal published an article today bringing up the question in the title. Now that Tesla has launched a kind of robotaxi trial in Austin, Texas, with a small number of cars and it’s clearly not perfect, one could ask if Waymo is being massively undervalued compared to … [continued]
As previously reported it would, Waymo has just launched service in Atlanta, Georgia. It has done so in collaboration with Uber. So, starting today, if you want to hail a robotaxi in the city of Atlanta, you can. Waymo’s preferred method of expansion now is clearly to launch exclusively on … [continued]
I wrote about Waymo’s expansion into more of California earlier today. It is bringing its robotaxi service to a lot more of the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and the Los Angeles metro area. Then, though, as I was scrolling through Waymo’s X/Twitter feed (where the company exclusively posts a lot … [continued]
Waymo continues to grow, and grow, and grow. The company just expanded its robotaxi services into more California cities. The company is offering rides in more areas of the Bay Area this week, and will be offering rides in more areas of the Los Angeles metro area next week. Ride … [continued]
Many recent AI breakthroughs have followed a common pattern: bigger models, trained on more data, with more compute, often deliver extraordinary gains. Waymo’s latest study explores whether this trend extends to autonomous driving and establishes new scaling laws in motion planning and forecasting — core autonomous vehicle (AV) capabilities. Our research confirms … [continued]
