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Waymo, Uber launch driverless ride-hailing in Austin

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As the emerging commercial robotaxi space grows with Tesla and others set to start deploying self-driving ride-hailing services, Waymo, the robotaxi firm owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has officially launched driverless taxis in Texas, with the help of Uber.

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Waymo kicks off initial tests in Japan with launch event

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The event featured officials from project partners GO, a taxi platform, and Nihon Kotsu, the largest taxi company in Tokyo, along with featuring one of the company’s camera-, lidar-, and radar-outfitted Jaguar I-Pace units, expected to begin manual testing around Tokyo in the weeks to come.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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s Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project. Vehicles to be deployed include 163 CNG, the vast majority for high mileage taxis and 18 heavy-duty LNG refuse trucks. In addition to the city fleets, high mileage and high visibility fleets are included, such as Coca-Cola, Sysco, Frito Lay, school districts, and taxis.

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GM self-driving unit Cruise to re-launch human-operated testing

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The General Motors (GM) self-driving unit Cruise has announced plans to resume driver-operated vehicle testing in Arizona, after an accident with one of its driverless taxis in October left a pedestrian severely injured. “This will help inform where we ultimately will resume driverless operations,” Cruise added.

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Why It’s Time to Get Optimistic About Self-Driving Cars

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He reckons that is the most complex use case the technology can deliver in the near future. Two autonomous taxis, from Pony.ai So far, around three in every 100 taxis there are robotaxis, developed by Baidu s autonomous car division, Apollo Go. rides for human taxi drivers in the city. What about the economics?

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Waymo now open to everyone in LA – but no new service areas

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Waymo has opened up its driverless taxi service to everyone in Los Angeles, without need for an invite code or waitlist, but it still remains with the same service area it had before and doesn’t yet cover the whole area around LA. The company recently announced it will add Hyundai Ioniq 5s to its fleet in the future.

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Survey shows Americans don’t trust self-driving cars. They also don’t know you can’t buy one.

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As self-driving features, semi and fully-autonomous vehicles begin to become more popular with companies like Tesla , Waymo , Cruise , and others pushing their driver assistance systems; the future is undoubtedly here. RELATED: General Motors’ Cruise taxis to expand to Phoenix and Austin.

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