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Google’s Waymo robo-taxi service nears full autonomy approval

Teslarati

Waymo, an autonomous taxi service subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google), is nearing full autonomy approval in San Francisco. That may be about to change as the company has completed the final set of permitting paperwork that would allow it to sell fully-autonomous taxi rides in the city.

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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

Green Car Congress

Boeing and start-up Kitty Hawk Corporation have entered a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility. The strategic partnership will bring together the innovation of Kitty Hawk’s Cora air taxi division with Boeing’s scale and aerospace expertise.

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Volkswagen Group, Google partnering on quantum computing; traffic optimization, batteries, AI

Green Car Congress

The Volkswagen Group and Google will partner on research in the field of quantum computing. As part of this collaboration, a team of specialists from Volkswagen and Google will work together using a Google quantum computer. Volkswagen Group IT wants to make progress in three development areas on the Google quantum computer.

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Firefly & Hyundai Motor America create pilot program to offer rideshare fleets & drivers new vehicles with bonus income up to $3,600/year

Green Car Congress

Firefly, a fast-growing in-car and car-top mobility media company and a Google Ventures-backed startup, will collaborate with Hyundai in promoting its vehicles—including EVs—to rideshare fleets and drivers across key US cities.

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“Insanely frightening and incredibly cool”: What it is really like to catch a self-driving robo-taxi

EV Central

I have an almost disturbing and possibly dangerous love of speed – skiing, driving, roller coasters; the faster it is the more alive I feel – so it came as a slightly embarrassing surprise to find myself properly, squealingly scared at the sedate pace of 30km/h in my self-driving robo-taxi. Because America.

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WiTricity extends recent funding for a total of $52M

Green Car Congress

The extension included investments from Tony Fadell’s Future Shape and other private investors. The company envisions a not-too-distant future when dynamic charging will support moving vehicles (from taxi queues to roadways), and autonomous vehicles and robots will charge without human intervention.

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Volkswagen demonstrates first successful real-world use of quantum computing to help optimize traffic routing

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen’s system relies on the D-Wave quantum annealer, a different kind of machine than the universal quantum computers under development by other firms, including Google. In the future, Volkswagen plans to develop its traffic optimization system to market maturity.