Waymo is testing Gemini as an in-car AI assistant in its robotaxis

Waymo is testing a Gemini-powered in-car AI assistant, per findings from a 1,200-line system prompt. The assistant can answer ...

Waymo to begin tests in more Bay Area cities

Driverless vehicles no longer exist solely in spy movies and futuristic dreams. In fact, Solano County streets are one step ...

Waymo to begin testing robotaxis in more Bay Area cities

Driverless vehicles no longer exist solely in spy movies and futuristic dreams. In fact, Solano County streets are one step ...
Times-Herald

Waymo to begin tests in several Solano County cities

Driverless vehicles no longer exist solely in spy movies and futuristic dreams. In fact, Solano County streets are one step ...
Popular Science

Rivian announces AI chip in move towards self-driving future

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe hosted the EV manufacturer’s ...
City & State New York

Could self-driving cars be on a collision course with Zohran Mamdani?

Since this summer, Google’s self-driving car company Waymo has been testing eight of its Jaguar I-PACE autonomous vehicles in most of Manhattan and parts of northern Brooklyn, with “trained safety ...
The New York Times

How Art Is Driving Waymo’s Feel-Good Branding

A Waymo self-driving car in Los Angeles wrapped with art by Tommii Lim. His cartoon cat is a stand-in for the target Waymo customer, who enjoys kicking back and relinquishing control of the ...
Wall Street Journal

Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Suddenly Behaving Like New York Cabbies

SAN FRANCISCO—It was like a scene out of a movie: a pair of white Jaguars zipping through a two-lane tunnel, changing lanes at the same time in a zigzag formation. But this one had a twist. They were ...
Reuters

Nvidia releases open-source software for self-driving car development

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Nvidia on Monday released new open-source software aimed at speeding up the development of self-driving cars using some of the newest "reasoning" techniques in ...
The Economist

Self-driving cars will transform urban economies

Urban Economies reflect how their residents get around. And before long, that will start to change—more dramatically than at any time since the automobile was invented over a century ago. The ...
Star Tribune

Opinion | Minneapolis should welcome Waymo’s self-driving cars

Last week, Waymo began testing its self-driving cars in Minneapolis, mapping our streets with human safety drivers behind the wheel. The California-based company eventually plans to deploy fully ...
The Economist

The self-driving taxi revolution begins at last

IN 1995 RESEARCHERS from Carnegie Mellon University drove 3,000 miles from Pittsburgh to San Diego without their hands on the steering wheel. The “No Hands Across America” tour marked the start of a ...