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Motional puts robotaxi deployment on back burner, to focus on technology development – ET Auto

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Motional partners with ride-hailing platforms Uber and Lyft to provide driverless taxi services. Motional partners with ride-hailing platforms Uber and Lyft to provide driverless taxi services. The startup said it has completed more than 100,000 autonomous rides in Las Vegas and food deliveries in Los Angeles.

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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxis to drive faster, farther, at night in Las Vegas – ET Auto

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The moves are modest compared with Alphabet’s Waymo, which this week announced a plan to begin a taxi service in Los Angeles, on top of the existing markets of San Francisco and Phoenix, where it already ferries passengers in its retrofitted autonomous Jaguars.

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Waymo starts fully autonomous rides in LA tomorrow; Austin later this year

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Waymo has announced that it will start offering fully autonomous ride-hailing services to the general public in Los Angeles starting tomorrow, March 14th, and that Austin, Texas will open up “later this year.” Electrek’s Take Waymo touts that its LA tour went quite well, claiming that it earned an average 4.7/5.0

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