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– Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has agreed to supply Waymo with “thousands” of Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans for use as autonomous vehicles. The announcement follows more than a year of collaboration between the two companies, which included a previous batch of 600 Pacificas that Waymo converted into self-driving test vehicles. – The expanded partnership between the […]
Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. It’s Tuesday. We have a patch to unpatch your patch, and Dell might reverse-merger itself back into existence as a publicly-traded company. Yeah, you read that correctly. Please apply to the damaged area.Microsoft’s new Windows 10 Spectre patch disables Intel’s fix Unfortunately, Intel’s recent patch for the Spectre CPU […]
Waymo already turned 600 Chrysler Pacifica minivans into self-driving vehicles, but apparently, those aren’t enough for the company’s upcoming taxi service. FCA US has revealed that it’s supplying the former Google self-driving division with thousands of Chrysler Pacific minivans and that delivery will begin in late 2018. Waymo will use the vehicles it’s already testing […]
The Alphabet spinoff is in a rush, so it’s buying thousands more “driverless” cars from Fiat-Chrysler. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a6fbe7d68851b1549e7d280/master/pass/Waymo-Minivan.jpg
Waymo continues to expand the pool of locations where it’s testing its autonomous vehicle tech, and the latest destination is metro Atlanta. The former Google self-driving car company revealed the news on Twitter, noting that it’s expanding considerably its geographic testing footprint now that it’s got fully driverless test vehicles on the road in Phoenix. […]
Waymo started offering free autonomous rides in Phoenix last April as a way to promote its self-driving cars. The Alphabet-owned company has been trying to ramp up its own ride-sharing service to compete with Uber and Lyft, with a driverless taxi service with which the company hopes to cover a region larger than London. Now, […]
Enlarge / Cruise second-generation test vehicles, assembled at GM’s Lake Orion plant in Michigan. (credit: Cruise) In November, Waymo announced it would begin testing fully driverless vehicles with no one in the driver’s seat. Then, last week, GM petitioned the federal government for approval to mass-produce a car with no steering wheel or pedals—with plans […]
Waymo faces a slew of challenges if it’s going to get its autonomous taxi service up and running, not the least of which is insurance. Who’s going to cover passengers when there’s no human pilot to help determine who’s responsible? Thankfully, someone has stepped up to the plate. Waymo has struck a deal with insurance […]
Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images News) A newly-released letter has formally acknowledged what was only briefly stated last month in a San Francisco courtroom: federal prosecutors have an open criminal investigation into Uber. Late last month, as part of the proceedings in the high-profile and ongoing Waymo v. Uber trade secrets lawsuit, US District […]
The civil trial between Uber and Waymo over stolen self-driving technology was supposed to start December 4th, but Judge Alsup announced a delay last month. Now he has unsealed the letter (over objections from the US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco) from the Department of Justice that caused the delay. It not only confirms that […]
