Waymo will be offering free rides to residents and visitors across different LA neighborhoods ahead of a wider service launch.
CPUC votes to grant Cruise & Waymo final permits
The vote allows Cruise and Waymo to charge for all rides, expand hourly operations and service area, and add as many robotaxis to their fleets as they want.
Waymo AVs are coming to Austin
This makes Austin Waymo’s fourth major ride-hail city, joining Metro Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Waymo pumps the brakes on self-driving trucks
Waymo still plans to continue to collaborate with DTNA to advance the technical development of an autonomous trucking platform.
Waymo robotaxis to be available through Uber
The companies announced a multi-year strategic partnership that will make the Waymo Driver available on the Uber Platform.
Waymo expands service area in Phoenix, SF
Waymo announced that it has doubled its robotaxi service area in Phoenix and is growing its service area in San Francisco.
Waymo starts fully driverless testing in LA
Waymo announced its starting completely driverless testing in Los Angeles, making it the third city to see driverless Waymo vehicles.
How Waymo tests its collision avoidance capabilities
Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, recently gave some insight into how it trains its Waymo Driver to avoid collisions on the road.
Waymo expands service area in 2 cities
Waymo announced that it is expanding its service area in both San Francisco and Phoenix.
Waymo to begin public robotaxi rides in San Francisco
Waymo announced that it will soon begin giving autonomous robotaxi rides, with no automation specialists in the vehicles, in San Francisco.
No, autonomous vehicles aren’t dead
Autonomous vehicles have major challenges. But declaring the technology dead after Argo AI’s shutdown is foolish.
Waymo opens autonomous rides to the public in Phoenix
Waymo One is opening up to the public in downtown Phoenix without any autonomous specialists behind the wheel.
Waymo now offers robotaxi rides to Phoenix airport
Members of the company’s Trusted Tester Program can now hail one of its all-electric Jaguar I-PACE equipped with a fifth-generation Waymo Driver 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for rides between downtown Phoenix and Phoenix Sky Harbor.
Inside Waymo’s safety benchmarks for robotaxis
Waymo released its Response Time and Collision Avoidance Benchmarking papers to provide clarity on the benchmarks it has for its vehicles.
Get an inside look at Waymo’s AV development at RoboBusiness
Waymo is a leading developer of autonomous driving technology, with public robotaxi services up and running in Phoenix and San Francisco.
Waymo starts fully driverless robotaxi rides in downtown Phoenix
Waymo began giving fully autonomous rides with no safety drivers to members of its trusted tester program in downtown Phoenix.
Watch Waymo avoid a truck running a red light
Watch a Waymo robotaxi with no safety drivers inside the vehicle safely react to a truck blowing through a red light in Phoenix.
Waymo begins fully driverless robotaxi rides in SF
Waymo also has plans to expand its fully driverless robotaxi service to downtown Phoenix in the coming months.
Cruise, Waymo can now charge for SF robotaxi rides
The permits require both companies to have a safety driver present in the vehicles at all times, however.
How Waymo adjusted its driver for autonomous trucking
Part of what makes Waymo’s system successful is its millions of miles of real world and simulated driving experience.
Nuro, Waymo bring autonomous deliveries to California
Today, Nuro announced it will be delivering with 7-Eleven in Mountain View, California, and Waymo announced its grocery delivery service will launch in 2022.
Waymo Via autonomous trucks making deliveries for UPS
The trucks are driving autonomously on highways between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. A human takes control once a truck exits the highway.