Sebastian Thrun, a pioneer of the self-driving industry, talked to BI about Waymo's greatest strength and why he still hasn't ...

Equipment alone on the fifth-generation robotaxis costs as much as $100,000, according to Waymo CEO Dmitri Dolgov. Additionally, lidar requires the company to meticulously map each city before its ...

The self-driving car industry is ... to autonomous driving. Waymo, owned by Alphabet (Google’s parent company), relies on a costly tech stack — a $180,000 suite of LiDAR, radar, cameras ...

The California DMV announced on Friday that it is now seeking public comment on proposed regulations that would apply to self-driving vehicles from light-duty robotaxis like Waymo's to heavy-duty ...

The Alphabet CEO said “personal ownership” of Waymo’s lidar-equipped cars is an option ... extended the idea to sell you a self-driving car. Back in 2018 it swung a deal with Chrysler ...

While Tesla leans on scale, Waymo focuses on safety and redundancypacking each vehicle with costly lidar, radar, and cameras. The approach isn't cheap, but it's trusted. So who's ahead?

Waymo's vehicles use a combination of cameras and expensive sensors such as lidar to create a three-dimensional map of the road, adding redundancy to increase safety. In contrast, Tesla depends ...

The women asked to be let out of the car. Instead, the vehicle stopped at the side of the highway and wouldn’t let them out. “No one from customer support would actually move the Waymo,” the ...

Waymo ride-hailers in the Texas city drove right into a “Black Mirror” episode when their self-driving car stopped in a merging lane underneath the MoPac Expressway and locked them inside for ...

Newcomer JAC spills on what's really driving the affordable Chinese boom Chinese car maker NIO has officially launched its entry-level brand Firefly at Auto Shanghai 2025, with the small electric car ...

Over a year after a driverless car company returned to Central Texas, several residents are reporting more than two dozen issues with the vehicles in the city. Waymo began operating in Austin ...