Tag: Google

March 26, 2020

SINCE AN INTERNET search company named Google began testing self-driving vehicles more than a decade ago, the still-in-development technology has faced a niggling issue: The federal vehicle safety rules that govern car design assume that a human sits behind the […]

July 8, 2019

HERE’S THE THING about car crashes: They are, blessedly, pretty rare. In the US, nine people are injured in motor vehicle crashes for every 100 million miles traveled in cars, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. […]

June 18, 2019

The fully-automated system is trained using AI-powered object detection to identify street signs in the freely available images. Municipal authorities currently spend large amounts of time and money monitoring and recording the geolocation of traffic infrastructure manually, a task which […]

March 13, 2018

NEARLY A DECADE after beginning life as Google’s self-driving car project—and helping make the idea of driverless cars real—Waymo is now the smallest of steps from launching a commercial service: It has members of the public riding in its retrofitted […]

January 23, 2018

Waymo, the driverless car division owned by Google’s parent company, announced Jan. 22 that it will bring its test program to metro Atlanta. The Alphabet-owned business began mapping roads in the city last week, but had not yet released details […]

October 31, 2017

Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit demonstrated a self-driving minivan with no one behind the wheel, declaring the vehicle as ready for public use. “It’s safe to say we’re really close, but I don’t want to put a date on it,” John […]

June 27, 2017

YOU MAY REMEMBER Avis and Hertz as places where you arrive in a shuttle bus, waste time in line, then hand someone a few hundred dollars in exchange for a cheap car. You know, exactly the kinds of companies slated […]

April 10, 2017

Uber Technologies Inc. has an alibi for Alphabet Inc.’s allegations of trade-secrets theft — the ride-hailing company’s driverless car technology is completely different from its rival’s designs. Uber is trying to persuade a judge not to issue an order that […]

March 13, 2017

THE RACE TO build the first fleet of robot cars is heating up, but today it’s brainiac lawyers—not brainiac engineers—toiling in the pit. On Friday in a San Francisco district court, attorneys for Google self-driving car spinoff Waymo filed for a […]

February 24, 2017

UNTIL TODAY, THE race to build a self-driving car seemed to hinge on who had the best technology. Now it’s become a case of full-blown corporate intrigue. Alphabet’s self-driving startup, Waymo, is suing Uber, accusing the ridesharing giant of stealing […]

February 1, 2017

Robotic cars are great at monitoring other cars, and they’re getting better at noticing pedestrians, squirrels, and birds. The main challenge, though, is posed by the lightest, quietest, swerviest vehicles on the road. “Bicycles are probably the most difficult detection […]

December 22, 2016

Google’s newly independent self-driving car effort, are working together to figure out how to put the tech giant’s sensors and software into the automaker’s vehicles. The idea is to match the companies’ areas of expertise. Google can make a highly […]