Next stop for Waymo One: Washington, D.C(waymo.com) It’s official: Waymo One, the world’s leading fully autonomous ride-hailing service, will be ready for riders in the nation’s capital on the Waymo One app in 2026.
Tesla Autopilot Car Drove Through a Giant Photo of a Road(petapixel.com) Famous YouTube creator and former NASA engineer Mark Rober, who provides his 65 million subscribers with scientific entertainment videos, put Tesla’s vision-based safety features up against a LiDAR system, and the results, although arguably flawed, highlight the limitations of vision-based autonomous vehicle systems.
Inside Waymo's Expansion: Cars, New Depots, and What's Next(autonomycentral.net) A couple of months ago, Waymo content creator JJRicks uploaded a video showcasing a factory he discovered, capturing close-up ground-level footage of the site. This factory turned out to be an assembly plant from Magna, where Waymos are constructed.
Waymo's Expansion: Cars, New Depots, and What's Next(autonomycentral.net) A couple of months ago, Waymo content creator JJRicks uploaded a video showcasing a factory he discovered, capturing close-up ground-level footage of the site. This factory turned out to be an assembly plant from Magna, where Waymos are constructed.
Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' Isn't Called That in China(thedrive.com) Tesla offers an advanced driver assistance feature in many parts of the world called Full Self-Driving. As people who follow Tesla know, the system doesn’t achieve full self-driving; it’s an SAE Level 2 technology that requires, in Tesla’s own words, “that the driver pay attention to the road, their surroundings, and other road users,” with “constant monitoring” necessary.
Waymo – Driverless in Atlanta(theverge.com) Waymo just flipped the switch from supervised to unsupervised in Atlanta, where it aims to eventually launch a commercial robotaxi service later this year through an exclusive partnership with Uber.
Waymo robotaxis safer than any human-driven cars(cleantechnica.com) Swiss Re, a top reinsurer globally, has analyzed a lot of data, and it has determined that Waymo’s robotaxis are safer than human drivers, and even safer than human drivers of new cars with the latest advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo(waymo.com) こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu and GO, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip.
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Trump wants to stop Tesla having to report Autopilot, Full Self-Driving crashes(electrek.co) The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.