Enlarge / A potential Apple car or self-driving vehicle platform is still years away, but a key executive has shifted his focus to it. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Another executive shuffle is underway at Apple, according to Business Insider. Kevin Lynch, a key Apple VP overseeing health and the Apple Watch, is moving […]
Enlarge (credit: Walmart) Walmart is investing in self-driving startup Cruise as part of a massive $2.75 billion investment round in the company—an expansion of the $2 billion round announced in January. That original announcement featured three other big names: GM, Honda, and Microsoft. Cruise was originally an independent startup but was acquired by GM in […]
Enlarge / Cruise CTO Kyle Vogt and Voyage CEO Oliver Cameron. (credit: Voyage) Two weeks ago, I wrote about reports that Cruise—a self-driving venture co-owned by GM and Honda—was on the verge of buying startup Voyage. Now it’s official: Cruise is acquiring Voyage. Voyage’s strategy was to launch its first self-driving taxi service at the […]
Enlarge (credit: Waymo) Last year was the most significant yet in Waymo’s 11-year effort to develop a driverless car. The Google sister company raised $3.2 billion, signed deals with several partners, and launched the world’s first truly driverless taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona. Even so, the widespread rollout of fully autonomous vehicles remains slow, staggered, […]
Dan Ammann, CEO of Cruise, the self-driving tech subsidiary of GM, will hit the roads of San Francisco this month later getting consent by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles at October to operate entirely unmanned vehicle evaluations there. In Fortune’so called Brainstorm Tech engineering seminar on Tuesday, Ammann showed a movie of a few Cruise’s […]
Expand After covering Waymo for many decades, I have learned to select the corporation’s statements using a grain of salt. In 2018, by way of instance, Waymo said that it might establish a completely driverless business service at the end of the year. Waymo did launch an agency named Waymo One in December 2018, however, […]