Tag: Waymo
California blocks driverless Waymo expansion, Motorola launches £90 smartphone
California has blocked a Google-backed driverless car company from expanding to more cities after a series of accidents. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has suspended a request by Waymo, which is owned by Google’s parent company, to launch its robotaxi business in more cities within the state. Vehicles from Waymo and Cruise, a rival,…
Autonomous vehicles to drive automotive sensor growth, IDTechEx finds
IDTechEx’s new report “Autonomous Cars, Robotaxis and Sensors 2024-2044” shows that autonomous cars are slowly, but very surely, becoming a part of everyday life. Although they have been hyped and overpromised for a long time, in the last couple of years the industry has accomplished some significant milestones. The US and China both now have…
Google invests in Oxa driverless cars, deepfake videos of Sir Keir Starmer emerge
Google has taken a 3.5pc stake in Oxa, an Oxford University spin-out Google has invested in one of Britain’s most promising driverless car companies in a further bet on the technology that the internet giant has already put billions into. The US company has taken a 3.5pc stake in Oxa, an Oxford…
Tech Digest daily round up: Alexa to get male voice, Ziggy
Amazon is rolling out a brand new voice for Alexa that will give users a more masculine option over the assistant’s default voice, and it even comes with its own new wake word. Named Ziggy, this deeper-voiced alternative has certainly been a long time coming for Alexa compatible devices. Much like the celebrity voices of Shaquille O’…
Ex-Google engineer charged with trade secrets theft
A former Google engineer has been charged with stealing self-driving car technology from the company shortly before joining Uber. The indictment filed on Tuesday by the US Attorney’s office in San Jose, California, is an offshoot of a lawsuit filed in 2017 by Waymo, a self-driving car pioneer spun off from Google. Uber agreed to…
Elon Musk’s Tesla gears up for fully self-driving cars in 2020
Tesla expects to have full self-driving cars in which humans will not have to touch the steering wheel by around the second quarter of next year. The company made the announcement during an investor conference at its California, headquarters on Monday, in which it outlined its bold but risky bid to transform Tesla’s electric cars…
Google parent Alphabet reports continued revenue and profit growth
Revenue and profit at Google parent company Alphabet has continued to rise, driven by its core Google products and digital advertising arm. The company reported revenue of 39.2 billion US dollars (£30.1 billion) in the three months up to December 31, an increase of 22% on the previous year. For the full year, revenue stood…
Waymo launches trial ride-hailing service with self-driving car
Google’s self-driving car spin-off Waymo is finally ready to profit from its nearly decade-old technology with a small-scale ride-hailing service in the Phoenix area of the US. The service, which will include a human behind the wheel in case the autonomous vehicles malfunction, marks a significant milestone for Waymo, a company that began as a secretive…
