Waymo, the robotaxi company owned by Alphabet, recently published a new study examining hundreds of these types of crashes involving vulnerable road users, which it is calling “the largest ...

Despite a fresh $5.6 billion funding boost, Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service still can’t compete with traditional rideshares on either price or speed. In addition to being more costly ...

Waymo on Friday said it raised $5.6 billion from investors to expand a robotaxi program now operating in Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco. The investment round was led by Google-parent ...

Waymo just completed an oversubscribed funding round of $5.6 billion, its largest investment round to date. The company said it will use the funds to support its robotaxi business in its current ...

Robotaxi developer Waymo has closed an oversubscribed Series C funding round totaling $5.6 billion. Alongside an expanded partnership with Uber, the funds will help the rideshare company expand ...

In late October, Waymo secured $5.6 billion in new funding, valuing the company at over $45 billion. The funding will support fleet expansion, including the addition of Hyundai Ioniq 5 EVs to the ...

And then, after a somewhat bumpy start, the robotaxi race is on and Alphabet's self-driving car unit, Waymo, is pulling ahead. We'll tell you how Waymo got its lead. Starting with the chips industry.

Alphabet Inc. GOOG GOOGL subsidiary Waymo’s co-founder Anthony Levandowski is more optimistic about Tesla Inc.’s TSLA self-driving vision over Waymo’s given the EV giant’s wealth of data.

Waymo was founded at Google in 2009, and is now widely acknowledged as the clear leader among Robotaxi players. It’s been a long path over 15 years. This new infographic (PDF) plots the path ...