The man killed in a multicar crash in San Francisco on Sunday was an athlete and computer engineer who “spread a lot of joy ...

A self-driving Waymo car, which is not being blamed for the crash, was among six vehicles struck when a fast-moving vehicle slammed into a line of car stopped at a traffic light at the corner of 6 ...

There is no doubt that 2024 was an inflection point for Waymo, as the Google self-driving car project was renamed in 2016. Before last year, Waymo had ferried public passengers for 1mn trips since ...

Waymo may have outlasted Cruise to lead the ... now director of hardware engineering for Zoox. Despite clear demand for robotaxi rides in the U.S. market, GM surprised some longtime industry ...

I showed my videos to Waymo’s Anne Dorsey, a software engineer who helps lead a team that focuses on how the autonomous vehicles interact with non-cars — and hears a lot of pedestrian feedback.

Google-backed Waymo moves ahead with expansion plans in a number of US cities in 2025, after a successful 2024 that saw 150,000 robotaxi rides every day. Amazon-backed Zoox is gearing up to expand ...

On paper, that might sound like a disaster for Waymo. Alphabet’s self-driving tech developer announced in 2021 that automaker Zeekr—a brand majority owned by the Chinese automotive giant Geely ...

(Waymo clarified there was thankfully no passenger ... Several computer science experts and civil engineers told Popular Science that they were confident these early autonomous vehicles (AV ...

One of the cars was a Waymo, an autonomous driving vehicle. A spokesperson for Waymo said the car was unoccupied. According to the Waymo spokesperson, their car was struck by another car while it ...