Waymo is now offering a fully-driverless ride-hailing service in the Phoenix area, where the Alphabet company has been piloting its business since 2018. The fully-driverless option will apply to a 50-square-mile area at first, and early users will be customers who have been testing the service. Waymo also said that it would be resuming rides… Continue reading Waymo is finally going fully driverless with its ride-hail service in Phoenix (GOOGL)
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Waymo and TuSimple autonomous trucking leaders on the difficulty of building a highway-safe AI
[embedded content] TuSimple and Waymo are in the lead in the emerging sector of autonomous trucking; TuSimple founder Xiaodi Hou and Waymo trucking head Boris Sofman had an in-depth discussion of their industry and the tech they’re building at TC Mobility 2020. Interestingly, while they’re solving for the same problems, they have very different backgrounds… Continue reading Waymo and TuSimple autonomous trucking leaders on the difficulty of building a highway-safe AI
Daily Crunch: Waymo opens up driverless ride-hailing
Alphabet’s self-driving technology company hits a major milestone, Apple TV+ extends its free subscription period and Affirm files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for October 8, 2020. The big story: Waymo opens up driverless ride-hailing Waymo hit a major milestone today: It’s offering fully driverless rides to (some) members of the public.… Continue reading Daily Crunch: Waymo opens up driverless ride-hailing
Waymo starts to open driverless ride-hailing service to the public
Waymo, the Google self-driving-project-turned-Alphabet unit, is beginning to open up its driverless ride-hailing service to the public. The company said that starting today, members of its Waymo One service will be able to take family and friends along on their fully driverless rides in the Phoenix area. Existing Waymo One members will have the first… Continue reading Waymo starts to open driverless ride-hailing service to the public
General Motors finally gets serious about in-car tech, taps Unreal Engine for next-gen interface
The upcoming GMC Hummer EV will feature a new in-car user interface powered by Unreal Engine. This powerful platform underpins the latest video games and is well-suited to provide vehicle occupants with a dynamic and robust experience. Epic Games made the announcement yesterday while unveiling the latest development tools for its human-machine interface program. Here’s… Continue reading General Motors finally gets serious about in-car tech, taps Unreal Engine for next-gen interface
Audi teases electric e-tron GT production version, releases ‘progressive’ sound of the supercar
Audi is teasing the production version of its e-tron GT electric supercar and unveiling the ‘progressive’ sound of the vehicle. The vehicle is an exciting entry in the EV space and a collaboration with Porsche leveraging their expertise with the Taycan. Audi unveiled the prototype back in 2018 and now it is getting ready to… Continue reading Audi teases electric e-tron GT production version, releases ‘progressive’ sound of the supercar
Tesla is doing a Model 3 refresh and we’ve seen it
Tesla is making an update to Model 3, which is significant enough that people other than Elon Musk would call it a refresh, and we’ve seen it. Electrek can confirm some of the new features. Over the last few months, we have heard a lot of rumors about a Model 3 update. It started when… Continue reading Tesla is doing a Model 3 refresh and we’ve seen it
Tesla (TSLA) gets new Wall Street high target as competition seems to be lagging
Tesla’s stock (TSLA) received a new Wall Street high target price from an analyst who doesn’t see EV competition stopping Tesla’s hyper growth. New Street Research “re-initiated” coverage on Tesla with a $578 per share target, a new high for Tesla on Wall Street, up from $400. Despite the already insane performance of Tesla’s stock… Continue reading Tesla (TSLA) gets new Wall Street high target as competition seems to be lagging
Hyundai confident on flying cars, steps up plans for full lineup
South Korea’s biggest automaker is stepping up its pursuit of flying cars, planning a full lineup of aerial vehicles that it envisages zigzagging city skies within a decade. Hyundai Motor Group is developing models that will carry five or six people within metropolitan areas and a bigger version to fly between cities, Jaiwon Shin, head… Continue reading Hyundai confident on flying cars, steps up plans for full lineup
Ford to keep office workers at home through at least next June
Ford Motor Co.’s tens of thousand of white-collar workers in North America will continue working from home through at least next June. The announcement Thursday is an extension of a remote-work policy the Dearborn automaker put in place near the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March. It follows General Motors Co.’s decision in early September to extend… Continue reading Ford to keep office workers at home through at least next June