Business Insider28d
A former Twitter engineer got a Waymo robot taxi to give her a 6.5-hour ride around San Francisco. Here's what happened.
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A software engineer managed to make a Waymo drive her around San Francisco for 6.5 hours — marking one of the longest rides ever taken by a ...
Forbes13d
Waymo Builds A Vision Based End-To-End Driving Model, Like Tesla/Wayve
Waymo’s self-driving robotaxis currently drive with an array of sensors and an array of AI tools (including lots of machine learning and an Large Language Model (LLM) known as the Waymo ...
The Verge13d
Waymo explores using Google’s Gemini to train its robotaxis
Waymo has long touted its ties to Google’s DeepMind and its decades of AI research as a strategic advantage over its rivals in the autonomous driving space. Now, the Alphabet-owned company is ...
Electrek11d
Waymo is now valued at a staggering $45 billion
After getting a hefty $5.6 billion in fresh capital last week, Alphabet’s autonomous driving unit Waymo is now reported to be valued at more than $45 billion. Waymo has come to symbolize ...
Carscoops8d
Waymo Is Somehow Valued More Than Ford After Raising $5.6B
In late October, Waymo secured $5.6 billion in new funding, valuing the company at over $45 billion. The funding will support fleet expansion, including the addition of Hyundai Ioniq 5 EVs to the ...
Forbes14d
Alphabet’s Waymo Logging 150,000 Robotaxi Rides And 1 Million Miles A Week
Waymo, Alphabet’s robotic taxi unit, is now providing over 150,000 paid rides per week, up by more than 50% since August as the tech giant seeks to stay ahead of potential rivals in autonomous ...
Road & Track8d
This 4-Way Waymo Standoff Is Autonomous Vehicle Comedy Gold
Now that General Motors’s Cruise has left San Francisco after one of its vehicles hit and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet along the ground, Waymo has taken the city by storm. Its Jaguar I-Paces ...
Detroit News11d
As Cruise reboots, Waymo robotaxis are everywhere in Frisco. Here's what the ride is like
San Francisco — General Motors Co.’s Cruise autonomous ride-share service left ‘Frisco last year after one of its driverless shuttles dragged a pedestrian, but the void has been quickly ...
The New York Times16d
Waymo Raises $5.6 Billion From Outside Investors
By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco Amid its push to grow its fleet of autonomous robot taxis and expand into new cities, Waymo has raised $5.6 billion from outside investors, its largest ...
Barron's19d
Waymo Ramps Up Robotaxi Push With $5.6 Bn In Funding
Waymo on Friday said it raised $5.6 billion from investors to expand a robotaxi program now operating in Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco. The investment round was led by Google-parent ...
AOL28d
A former Twitter engineer got a Waymo robot taxi to give her a 6.5-hour ride around San Francisco. Here's what happened.
Sophia Tung rode in a Waymo for 6.5 hours around San Francisco. She says she would've ridden longer, but the Waymo's battery was running low. A Waymo spokesperson says it was one of the "longer ...
Wall Street Journal12d
How Waymo Won Over San Francisco
And again, it was just Waymo after Waymo after Waymo. Jessica Mendoza: This was surprising. Just last year, Meghan and I had talked about how San Francisco really wasn't a fan of self-driving cars.