Waymo

Retail Asia04/04/2022

Alphabet Inc unit Waymo said on Wednesday it has started offering driverless rides to employees in San Francisco, accelerating a race with General Motors Co-backed rival Cruise to commercialize the technology in the dense city. Waymo also introduced autonomous rides to employees in downtown Phoenix with safety drivers behind the wheel, with a goal to […]

Retail Asia22/11/2021

Alphabet Inc’s Waymo said on Wednesday it is expanding its partnership with United Parcel Service Inc to move freight using autonomous trucks between two of the parcel delivery company’s Texas facilities during the holiday season. Waymo Via, the company’s delivery operation, began its partnership with UPS in early 2020 when it shuttled packages for the […]

Retail Asia17/03/2021

Samsung Electronics recently won a project for Google parent Alphabet’s autonomous driving unit Waymo to develop chips for next-generation self-driving cars, South Korean media reported on Monday. Samsung will develop a chip that computes data collected from various sensors installed in autonomous vehicles or centrally controls functions by exchanging information with Google data centers in […]

Retail Asia19/02/2021

Waymo is the pioneer of self-driving cars, but it has been beaten to the punch by Chinese rivals AutoX and Baidu to deploying robo-taxis. Well, this wasn’t going to stand for long as it has started tests of its robo-taxis in San Francisco. Waymo had deployed its ride-sharing service in Phoenix, Arizona earlier in 2020 […]

Retail Asia29/10/2020

Recently few reports emerged which said that Mercedes was scaling back from developing autonomous driving technology which was quickly buried by the company’s head of digital transformation. Now Alphabet-owned Waymo and Daimler have officially announced a partnership in which the German company will be teaming up with the pioneering self-driving company to sell autonomous trucks […]

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Waymo Offers Driverless Rides To San Francisco Employees, Expands In Phoenix

Waymo, UPS Expand Autonomous Freight Truck Tie-Up Ahead Of Holidays

Samsung To Develop Autonomous Driving Chip For Google’s Waymo

Google’s Waymo Self Driving Car Unit Starts Robo-Taxis In San Francisco

Waymo And Daimler Are Partnering For Self Driving Trucks