Why I Ride with Waymo: Christine

Editor’s note: Christine is an SF Trusted Tester who uses Waymo to pick up and drop off her five year old son at school. As a working mom, she appreciates the luxury Waymo gives her to spend time with her son on the way to school and the opportunity to get work done in a… Continue reading Why I Ride with Waymo: Christine

Why I Ride with Waymo: Dalibor

Dalibor – thanks for taking the time to chat with us. Mind starting out with a little background on yourself? Yes, I’m Dalibor, and I’m 23 years old. I’ve been living in San Francisco for just over a year now in Outer Richmond, and so far, it’s been great. I currently work as a barista… Continue reading Why I Ride with Waymo: Dalibor

Taking our next step in the City by the Bay

This morning in San Francisco, a fully autonomous all-electric Jaguar I-PACE, with no human driver behind the wheel, picked up a Waymo engineer to get their morning coffee and go to work. Since sharing that we were ready to take the next step and begin testing fully autonomous operations in the city, we’ve begun fully… Continue reading Taking our next step in the City by the Bay

To our fellow San Franciscans

Our mission at Waymo is to make it safer and easier for people and things to get where they’re going. It’s in our name, which originated from the belief that there must be a better way forward in mobility. Here in San Francisco, we are privileged to share the road with everyone who makes up… Continue reading To our fellow San Franciscans

Expanding the Waymo Open Dataset with new labels and challenges

We launched the Waymo Open Dataset back in 2019 as one of the largest and most diverse autonomous driving datasets ever released for research. At the time, it consisted of multimodal sensor data from 1,000 driving segments. As a result of the overwhelmingly positive reception and high engagement, we have continuously evolved the dataset beyond… Continue reading Expanding the Waymo Open Dataset with new labels and challenges

Utilizing key point and pose estimation for the task of autonomous driving

Imagine: you’re driving a car and you see a person standing on the corner of a street. How do you know if they’re going to cross? Interpreting another road user’s intent and actions can be challenging and complex, even for human drivers. It is a driver’s job to gauge whether another road user wants you… Continue reading Utilizing key point and pose estimation for the task of autonomous driving

Enabling autonomous freight movement for C.H. Robinson’s customers

This long-term, strategic partnership will initially include running multiple pilots for C.H. Robinson’s customers in the Dallas-Houston transportation lane with our Waymo Via test fleet. We’ll then work together to shape the future development and expansion of autonomous driving technology across the industry. C.H. Robinson has a network of nearly 200,000 shipper and carriers and… Continue reading Enabling autonomous freight movement for C.H. Robinson’s customers

Establishing a long-term alliance with J.B. Hunt for autonomous trucking

2021 was a watershed year for Waymo Via when it came to deep industry collaboration, and 2022 will be no different. Starting the year off strong, we’re expanding our relationship with J.B. Hunt and entering into a long-term, strategic alliance to commercialize autonomous driving technology for trucking transportation together. This builds on the great success… Continue reading Establishing a long-term alliance with J.B. Hunt for autonomous trucking

Designed to deliver: Bringing the benefits of our 5th generation hardware to trucking

At Waymo, we’re developing one core autonomous driving platform—the Waymo Driver—consisting of hardware and software, which builds the foundations of a Driver that can scale across multiple geographies, vehicle types, and use cases. Because we engineer an autonomous driver that can navigate these different modalities side by side, system requirements and skills learned from one… Continue reading Designed to deliver: Bringing the benefits of our 5th generation hardware to trucking

Back to School and Back to Basics with Waymonuats

The school year is quickly approaching and students will be sitting in a class once again, whether at home or in person. In fact, some students are already back in session! Some classes will completely absorb them in the material and others will have them wondering “when will I ever use this information again?” or… Continue reading Back to School and Back to Basics with Waymonuats