Waymo has long touted its ties to Google’s DeepMind and its decades of AI research as a strategic advantage over its rivals in the autonomous driving space. Now, the Alphabet-owned company is taking ...

The sensors gather data from various scenarios, collected during every trip a Waymo takes. The company also uses synthetic data to train Waymo with simulations of a broader diversity of situations ...

In fact, early data backs this up. According to Earnest Analytics, Waymo is already retaining riders at a higher rate compared to other ride-hailing services like Uber or Lyft. People enjoy the ...

This is because custom 3D maps, along with real-time sensor data, are used to determine the vehicle's exact location. One thing that is potentially lost in discussions of Waymo's approach is that ...

Alphabet Inc.-owned Waymo LLC just announced that its autonomous ride-hailing service, Waymo One, is now available to ...

Overall, more data is needed to understand exactly how Waymo compares to ride share across markets; but, this study directionally points to the higher costs and slower service AVs provide today.

"I would say the Tesla has examples of maybe 10,000 or maybe a million times more data than Waymo does in terms of all other scenarios of driving," he added. The unveiling of Tesla's "Cybercab ...

Waymo was founded at Google in 2009 ... Companies do reveal their data in what they do. A demo ride or video means nothing, but being willing to remove the safety driver says a lot—it says ...

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, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit, raised $5.6 billion from investors, its largest-ever funding round. The investment round was led by Google parent Alphabet and included ...