US ride-share startup Lyft on Friday dedicated a new team focused on speeding up its effort to create a self-driving vehicle platform, which would be open to use by other companies. The San Francisco based company earlier this year announced what it billed as the world’s first open self-driving platform, inviting car manufacturers and rival … Read more
US car rental giant Avis Budget on Monday announced it will team up with Waymo on the self-driving cars being tested on Arizona roads. The rental company said it would provide support and maintenance for Waymo, a subsidiary of Google-parent Alphabet, to keep the vehicles clean and mechanically ready to go. News of the alliance … Read more
Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test self-driving car technology, the companies said. Waymo and Lyft are joining forces against ridesharing giant Uber, which is racing to develop its own self-driving vehicles. Many other companies such as German carmaker Daimler and California-based Tesla have … Read more
Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test self-driving car technology, the companies said. Waymo and Lyft are joining forces against ridesharing giant Uber, which is racing to develop its own self-driving vehicles. “We’re looking forward to working with Lyft to explore new self-driving products … Read more
Intel’s $15-billion purchase of Israeli firm Mobileye could help fuel the country’s rise in the driverless car industry — not as a builder of vehicles, but as the brains behind them. Monday’s deal, the largest ever in Israel’s tech sector, could help boost trade despite the fact no commercial cars are assembled in the country. … Read more
Uber on Friday acknowledged the use of a secret software program to steer drivers away from trouble, including sting operations by local authorities to catch law-breakers. In the latest in a streak of damaging news for the ridesharing giant, Uber came forward about its “Greyball” software after a New York Times report which said the … Read more
Uber chief Travis Kalanick has apologized, acknowledging that “I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up,” after a video showed him verbally abusing a driver for the service. In a message to Uber employees late Tuesday, Kalanick cited the widely circulated video and said he “treated an Uber driver disrespectfully.” The incident which … Read more
Google is putting its self-driving car technology into a new company which it will call Waymo, the firm has announced. The new business, Waymo, will be owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet. It signals a push to commercialise the technology which Google has been developing for more than 10 years. At a media event, the … Read more