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Google’s Waymo taxis are quickly learning Philly roads, while lawmakers — and all of us — grapple with what it means for our city ...

Waymo said Thursday its sixth-generation, Ojai robotaxis are now providing driverless rides for employees and their guests in ...

Waymo has been running roughly a dozen test vehicles in Denver since September, with staff riding along to verify performance and gather data, according to The Denver Post. The fleet includes white ...

University researchers are examining new safety certifications for autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars and delivery ...

Waymo is rolling out its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, saying it's designed to avoid a repeat of past weather-related snafus. It's also causing ...

Self-driving cars are creating new problems for city transit systems. Officials are still figuring out how to adapt. In the past few years, while navigating the streets of San Francisco, bus and ...

At the meeting, Waymo said there are about 70 dispatchers at a call center in the Philippines to assist cars in the company's global fleet that require human intervention. But on the night of Dec 20, ...

Waymo has driven more than 200 million miles fully autonomously and has provided more than 20 million such rides.

Autonomous driving looks like the wave of the future, but industry-leading companies like Waymo need to work out the kinks if ...

When an AV makes a maneuver that a cautious human driver never would, such as stalling at a geofence boundary, it arguably ...