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In January 5–8, 2023, Las Vegas was at the center of the world’s media. This is because many companies again participated in CES, which was not operated properly due to COVID-19. Companies have tried to promote their corporate values to people by unveiling new technologies. The participation of automobile-related companies…

I recently saw with pleasure that Waymo has just announced the increase in its autonomous taxis in one of the cities in the USA. And I think that’s good news, especially after another self-driving car company (Argo) recently filed for bankruptcy. But all that glitters is not gold, as Waymo…

Self driving cars have been around the corner for a while now, with many companies and carmakers betting on it as the next step of transportation and a solution to heavy traffic as well as road accidents. There’s been promises to fully deliver this technology as early as 2015. …

Waymo embarks on the challenge of another fully autonomous robotaxi. Waymo announced that it is choosing Los Angeles as the second city in California to offer robotaxi services. Waymo has already been testing autonomous driving in various cities. And there were two areas that were actually providing the service. In…

Waymo posted on their blog today that they’ll be opening a self-driving service in Los Angeles. We’ve gotten to know many LA neighborhoods, including Downtown and Miracle Mile, Koreatown, Santa Monica, Westwood and West Hollywood, and we’ll begin driving autonomously in several central districts over the coming months as we…

Waymo statement — https://blog.waymo.com/2022/09/benchmarking-av-safety.html Reference article — Waymo Claims Its Driver AI Is Safer Than a Human and Backs It Up with Test Results https://jalopnik.com/waymo-claims-its-driver-ai-is-safer-than-a-human-and-ba-1849598194 While the core apples to apples response time improvement is encouraging, the ability to do something and doing it in enough scenarios, especially crash cases…

Dr. Ashley Nunes is a research fellow at Harvard Law School. His work explores how innovation affects markets. This article is based on my interview with Dr. Ashley Nunes. Waymo, a frontrunner in the self-driving car industry, has been operating fully autonomous rides without a safety driver in a town…

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, the problem of sensing the real world in particular, there is a first thinking approach to solving it, that is: “Roads and highways were built for human vision, so autonomous vehicles require the computer equivalent of human vision”. Tesla’s implementation of the aforementioned principle…