Smart Cities Phoenix will no longer be Phoenix if Waymo’s driverless-car experiment succeeds Shared autonomous vehicles could transform American cities built around car ownership. by Ed Finn 2018-06-26T07:00:00-04:00
Smart Cities Alphabet’s moonshot chief: Regulating driverless cars demands testing the “smarts” of the systems Astro Teller says Waymo stress-tests its vehicles under “pathological situations,” some involving people in Elmo outfits. by James Temple 2018-03-27T15:15:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines And the award for most nauseating self-driving car goes to … I rode in a bunch of autonomous cars so you don’t have to. by Rachel Metz 2018-01-12T00:00:00-05:00
Silicon Valley Silicon Valley’s 2017 Report Card It’s been a bad year for America’s biggest tech hub—though not because of a lack of innovation. by Martin Giles 2017-12-26T00:00:00-05:00
Smart Cities Lidar Just Got Way Better—But It’s Still Too Expensive for Your Car Velodyne’s latest sensor doubles the company’s previous mark for range and quadruples its resolution. But it’s entering an increasingly competitive field. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-11-28T10:16:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Why Waymo’s Partnership with Avis Makes Sense Alphabet’s autonomous-driving division doesn’t care for auto maintenance, while rental firms are keen to find purpose as the model of car ownership changes. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-06-26T14:50:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Waymo Has Invited the Public to Hop Into Its Self-Driving Cars Folks living in the Phoenix area can now sign up for free on-demand rides, part of a trial meant to see how regular people integrate the autonomous cars into their everyday lives. by Michael Reilly 2017-04-25T13:55:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence Self-Driving Cars’ Spinning-Laser Problem Progress toward practical autonomous vehicles requires improvements to the sensors that map a vehicle’s environment in 3-D. by Tom Simonite 2017-03-20T15:23:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Alphabet-Uber Rivalry Intensifies Over Autonomous Car Cribbing Waymo claims that an engineer took trade secrets with him on his departure and used them to build new hardware at Uber. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-02-24T11:29:00-05:00
Connectivity Alphabet’s Nascent Ride-Sharing Service Ups the Ante Against Uber It’s less flexible and lacks enough drivers—but it’s also far cheaper. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-02-22T11:12:00-05:00