Tag: Waymo/Google

Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas

Uber Eats customers in California and Texas may soon have their takeout delivered by a driverless delivery pod after the company signed a 10-year deal with autonomous driving startup Nuro. Today’s announcement is the culmination of over four years of start-and-stop negotiations between the two companies. Uber wanted to use Nuro’s vehicles to make deliveries… Continue reading Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas

United States Light and Medium Duty Trucking Autonomous Technology Vendor Benchmark Report 2022

DUBLIN, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The “US Light and Medium Duty Trucking Autonomous Technology Market, 2022: Frost Radar Report” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The report presents competitive profiles on each of the companies based on their strengths, opportunities, and a small discussion on their positioning. Autonomous trucks are the next logical… Continue reading United States Light and Medium Duty Trucking Autonomous Technology Vendor Benchmark Report 2022

Waymo opens up driverless robotaxi service in downtown Phoenix to vetted passengers

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle developer under Alphabet, is opening up its driverless robotaxi service in downtown Phoenix to vetted local residents. People who have been accepted to Waymo’s “trusted tester” program are eligible to hail a driverless ride — meaning no human safety operator is behind the wheel — in a Jaguar I-Pace EV in… Continue reading Waymo opens up driverless robotaxi service in downtown Phoenix to vetted passengers

Waymo’s driverless vehicles are picking up passengers in downtown Phoenix

Waymo’s fully driverless vehicles are picking up passengers in downtown Phoenix, five months after the Alphabet-owned company expanded its service area to include denser, more complex areas of the city. Waymo has been testing its vehicles in several suburban towns outside of Phoenix since early 2017, including Chandler, Mesa, Tempe, and Gilbert. It also operates… Continue reading Waymo’s driverless vehicles are picking up passengers in downtown Phoenix

Waze shuts down its carpool service due to fewer commuters

Fewer people commuting due to the COVID-19 pandemic means fewer people in need of carpools. That’s the reason Google-owned Waze has decided to shutter its six-year-old Carpool app, which matches riders and drivers headed in the same direction, reported The Verge. The company will begin shutting down the feature this September in the US, Brazil… Continue reading Waze shuts down its carpool service due to fewer commuters

Apple trade secret treason: Zhang pleads guilty

A theft of trade secrets at Apple seems to have been solved. The other is still being negotiated. Also Apple probably wants to build an autonomous car and is doing research on it. However, Project Titan, as the project was previously called, had to deal with two thefts of trade secrets. One happened in 2018,… Continue reading Apple trade secret treason: Zhang pleads guilty

New partnerships in the field of autonomous trucks

Many companies are now cooperating with each other to bring autonomous driving into the transport industry for trucks. Already with the attempt to introduce autonomous driving in cars, formed blocks. Something similar seems to be happening in the truck sector. The pressure to develop is probably also growing because startups like TuSimple must catch up,… Continue reading New partnerships in the field of autonomous trucks

Google’s Waze is shutting down its carpooling service

Google-owned navigation service Waze is shutting down its six-year-old carpooling service, citing shifting commuting patterns as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting in September, the company will begin the process of winding down its carpooling service, which had been available in the US, Brazil, and Israel. Waze said it will explore other ways it… Continue reading Google’s Waze is shutting down its carpooling service

German Handelsblatt: Autonomous driving: Waymo and Daimler Truck are testing fully automated trucks in Texas005026

Waymo Truck: The Google subsidiary is testing self-driving “Freightliner” trucks from Daimler Truck. The Google subsidiary Waymo and the German manufacturer Daimler Truck are starting test runs with fully automatic trucks. Both companies announced this at a virtual press conference on Tuesday. The trucks of the Daimler brand Freightliner are to drive independently, referred to… Continue reading German Handelsblatt: Autonomous driving: Waymo and Daimler Truck are testing fully automated trucks in Texas005026