How will self-driving cars handle potholes? Waymo, the autonomous-driving subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, is coming to New Orleans to find out. Officials from the California-based company ...

On Wednesday, the Bay Area-based software company, Waymo, announced its self-driving cars will be making a visit down to America’s Finest City as part of an initiative to scale up its operations ...

Self-driving cars:GM dumps robotaxi plans; shifts autonomy work to personal cars Waymo plans to send less than 10 vehicles to each city, where they will be manually driven around for a couple of ...

Waymo began as Google’s 2009 self-driving car project, then was established as an independent autonomous driving technology company under Google’s parent, Alphabet, in 2016. Its commercial ...

For several years, Waymo and Cruise and other companies tested their cars with a professional human “safety driver” supervising the car. The safety driver took over if the car did something scary.

The fast expansion of Waymo’s driverless car service is growing competition for Uber. The companies are also partners. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco In 2020, Uber was at a crossroads ...

Still, the concept of tipping driverless vehicles still had many on social cracking ... "I hacked my Waymo into showing weird texts like empty string, ‘wongmjane,’ and emojis as the Car ID, pls don’t ...

Still, the concept of tipping driverless vehicles ... ‘wongmjane,’ and emojis as the Car ID, pls don’t ban me or patch it Waymo lol," she tweeted earlier this month. Unfortunately, the ...