Shares of South Korean automaker Hyundai soared on Friday after a company representative said the carmaker was in preliminary talks with Apple on a partnership to produce an electric car. Hyudai’s stock rose as much as 20%—adding $8 billion to the company’s market value-—the biggest one day jump since 1988. But, within hours, the company […]
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, […]
Expand (charge: Cruise) The self-driving firm that counts Honda and GM as important shareholders, has started testing self-driving Chevy Bolts with nobody from the driver’s chair, the business declared on Wednesday. A security operator at the passenger seat gets the capacity to block the vehicle in a crisis but maybe perhaps not”traditional motorist controllers,” according […]
Expand / Joel Johnson using a driverless Waymo automobile. (charge: Joel Johnson) Waymo has {} specifics regarding its industry-leading self-driving technologies. The business has done tens of thousands of miles of studying at Arizona and California–such as tens of thousands of driverless miles with nobody behind the wheel. But before last month, nearly everyone who […]
In the event that you believed 2020 had been an erratic season, you likely were not paying attention. For more than ten years, epidemiologists have sounded the warning a once-in-a-hundred-years pandemic could ravage the entire world, and that the most innovative countries were ill-prepared to its fallout. In 2021, we’ll face challenges both comfortable and […]
Should you’t heard of Waymo, it’s likely because of its self-driving automobiles. On Tuesday, Waymo showed some previously undisclosed technical information about these trucks. The facts are probably intended to voicing worries about autonomous vehicle engineering neglecting to advance as fast as many people had anticipated. You will find multiple motives for your delay, for […]
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, […]