Waymo opens it up to everyone in Nashville.
The Alphabet-owned company was previously only giving rides to people on its interest list. …
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Waymo suspends freeway driving amid safety concerns
… Media: https://twitter.com/ThatSeanKeenan/status/2057231481290850734 The suspensions come as the Alphabet-owned company has sped aggressively into new markets with the goal of reaching 1 million paid rides a week. …
Waymo recalls robotaxis for driving on flooded roads
… In documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Alphabet-owned company said that an unoccupied Waymo robotaxi “encountered an untraversable flooded section of a roadway that has a 40 mph speed limit.” Despite detecting the flooded road, the vehicle “proceeded at redu… …
Why Nuro thinks being a robotaxi ‘second mover’ gives it an advantage
… A number of companies, including Tesla, Zoox, Avride, and Motional, are racing to catch up with the Alphabet-owned firm. …
Waymo to begin passenger rides in its new Ojai robotaxi
… The Alphabet-owned company suspended freeway driving across all of its cities out of concerns about how its vehicles reacted to construction zones. …
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
… It is Google and Alphabet. Obviously we have Alphabet as well, but broadly I think about it as there are three main businesses in Google: Search, YouTube, and Google Cloud. …
Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis
… And they’re obviously backed by Alphabet; they’ve been backed by Alphabet for a long time, and they’re going to spend a lot of money to win. …