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☆ Ex-Waymo CEO is not impressed by Tesla's Robotaxi
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Waymo's ex-CEO said Tesla isn't "serious about building a safe and accessible Robotaxi business." AdvertisementIt seems former Waymo CEO John Krafcik was unimpressed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk's much-hyped "We, Robot" event. Alongside the Robotaxi, Tesla also showed off a 20-passenger Robovan and its Optimus humanoid robots. He added: "If a company were serious about building a safe and accessible Robotaxi business, it would look nothing like what was shown, or said, last night." AdvertisementMusk teased Tesla Robotaxis in 2019.

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☆ Self-driving cars were supposed to take over the road. What happened?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Matt Mcfarland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Caitlin O'Hara/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesGeneral Motors bought a self-driving company in 2016. Big talk, smaller resultsUrmson, while leading Google’s self-driving car project before founding Aurora, talked of his preteen son never needing to get a driver’s license. A self-driving car, without a steering wheel or pedals, would have to be able to drive itself in literally every situation possible. “It’s really, really hard,” Waymo’s then-CEO John Krafcik said in 2018 of self-driving technology. Companies developing lidar, widely seen as a key component for self-driving vehicles, as well as self-driving companies, have seen their stocks plummet recently.

☆ Waymo says it plans to launch its self-driving service in Los Angeles
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Waymo said service will first begin with safety drivers behind the wheel and, later, with just Waymo employees as riders. “When we think about our next cities, Los Angeles jumps out,” said Waymo’s co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana in Wednesday's blog post. Alphabet -owned Waymo said Wednesday it plans to expand its self-driving ride-hailing service, Waymo One, to Los Angeles. The self-driving car industry has been slow to progress and live up to lofty promises, but that's especially true of Waymo. Waymo announced plans in March to remove safety drivers for fully-autonomous rides, but those are still only available to Waymo employees, the spokesperson confirmed.

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