Local perspective on strip malls and big boxes, upzoning in Switzerland, zoning reform persuasion, autonomous vehicle safety ...

Well, maybe not next time, but soon. Uber and self-driving car company Waymo announced Friday that self-driving ride-hailing service is just months away as the companies are partnering to pioneer ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Two major players — Tesla and Waymo — are battling for dominance in the driverless tech sector. At stake is a controlling share of a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austinites will soon be able to hitch a ride on a fully driverless ride-hailing vehicle, as autonomous vehicle company Waymo is expanding its collaboration with Uber. Waymo ...

Uber users in Austin and Atlanta will be able to hail Waymo robotaxis through the app in early 2025 as part of an expanded partnership between the two companies. Waymo runs its own autonomous ride ...

Waymo and Uber — bitter enemies turned awkwardly polite work friends — announced they were expanding their two-year robotaxi partnership to two new cities: Austin, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia ...

Waymo bets that data will improve public perception of autonomous ... the Swiss canton (i.e. state) of Zurich allowed municipalities to upzone various neighborhoods to enable the construction of more ...

Waymo data on safety record of their vehicles in 22M miles with no safety driver, compared to humans ... [+] in the same region. Waymo, the robotaxi unit of Alphabet/Google, has released a new ...

If you’re Waymo, the answer is data — and lots of it. “This matters a lot to us” “This matters a lot to us,” said Trent Victor, director of safety research and best practices at Waymo ...

These rides are courtesy of Waymo, the self-driving car project incubated by Google and spun out as its own company under Alphabet. Waymo has been developing and testing its technology on public roads ...

Now that its technology is showing it can work on city streets, Alphabet, which owns Waymo, plans to invest billions more. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco Over the last few months ...