Moonshot ideas don’t go from a dream to a business overnight: Take self-driving cars, a concept that took decades to come to commercial fruition. General Motors showcased the concept at the 1939 World’s Fair years before Waymo started driving autonomous vehicles through the streets of...
Waymo, the self-driving company founded by Alphabet, announced on Wednesday (Dec. 5) the launch of Waymo One, its self-driving service. In a blog post, Waymo Chief Executive John Krafcik said the company will first offer the service to hundreds of early riders who have been...
Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Alphabet, announced on Wednesday (Oct. 10) that its self-driving vehicles have surpassed 10 million miles driven on public roads. In a blog post, Waymo Chief Executive John Krafcik said the millions of miles were driven in 25 cities...
Uber’s CEO used his first visit to the company’s Canadian tech hub to announce a new engineering hub in Toronto. Dara Khosrowshahi revealed that Uber plans to invest in a $200 million expansion of its self-driving vehicle center in the city. The new engineering hub...
April 28, 2017
Two big moves in the self-driving space this week. The first comes from Amazon. While the online retail giant has been tossed around in the list of potentials who could make a splash in the self-driving space as part of the company’s larger push to innovate in the broader logistics space, there hadn’t been much […]
April 21, 2017
Everyone’s talking about it. Apple looks to have joined the race to develop self-driving technology. Though, as is typical with Apple projects, details are vague at best. Lest we forget...
November 19, 2019
Chinese ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing is planning to bring a robo-taxi service to Shanghai, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Nov. 19). “We are going to launch a robo-taxi service in Shanghai very soon,” Tiger Qie, Didi’s vice president and chief technology officer of its ride-sharing unit, said onstage at CNBC’s East Tech West event in Guangzhou, […]
December 05, 2018
Waymo, the self-driving company founded by Alphabet, announced on Wednesday (Dec. 5) the launch of Waymo One, its self-driving service. In a blog post, Waymo Chief Executive John Krafcik said...
October 10, 2018
Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Alphabet, announced on Wednesday (Oct. 10) that its self-driving vehicles have surpassed 10 million miles driven on public roads. In a blog post,...
September 14, 2018
Uber’s CEO used his first visit to the company’s Canadian tech hub to announce a new engineering hub in Toronto. Dara Khosrowshahi revealed that Uber plans to invest in a...
