Over the same 44 million miles, Waymo estimates that human drivers would get into 190 crashes serious enough to cause an ...

Timothy B. Lee has been writing full-time about AI on his Substack, Understanding AI, since 2023. In his latest post, he ...

who got trapped inside a Waymo car that kept going around in circles while he was trying to get to the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, where he had a plane to catch. Last summer ...

Testing begins with a small fleet of vehicles driven manually by human operators through inner city streets and highways.

Waymo vehicles have also been involved in occasional accidents, but its data shows a 6.8 times lower crash rate involving any injury compared to human drivers.

Waymo announced that Washington, DC will be its next robotaxi city. The company aims to launch its Waymo One ridehailing ...

Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Austin. Given its relatively early development stage, the use of self-driving technology on public roads has been controversial, but that hasn't stopped Waymo from ...

Sylvan Park and Old Hickory— are similar to places Waymo already serves, like Austin and Phoenix. The idea is that by training the technology in new areas, it will help the company refine the ...