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Lucid Owners Club | The Uber + Lucid Motors robotaxi partnership is ...
A production-intent version of an Uber global robotaxi was unveiled today during a joint press conference from electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid Motors, technology company Nuro and ride hailing service Uber at CES, a consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas.
Wayve Wants to Take On Waymo—and Put Self-Driving Tech in ... - TIME
“Well, it’s not starting. This is awkward.” Wayve CEO Alex Kendall is prodding the touch screen panel in our Ford Mustang Mach-E, trying to coax his multi-billion dollar company’s software into taking us for a ride around San Jose. An assistant reaches in through the passenger window, does something like a “turn-it-off-and-on-again” move, and a map appears on the screen. Kendall pulls the car past a line of cones that cordons off an Nvidia GTC conference venue, then hits start. We’re pushed back in our seats gently as the car accelerates into the lane, eager to hit the road.In autonomous driving, as in many other AI-related domains, getting in first counts for a lot. Capturing customers early means collecting data that improves your product, starting a flywheel that can allow incumbents to devour the market. Waymo operates 3,000 robotaxis in ten U.S. cities, bringing in an annualized revenue of over $350 million as of January. Tesla has over six million vehicles collecting data for its Full Self-Driving mode.Wayve is an underdog. In February, the London-based startup was valued at $8.6 billion—a few weeks after Waymo, which was spun out of Google in 2016, was valued at $126 billion. Kendall isn’t daunted. “What we've built is a paradigm shift from what you see driving around in Shanghai or San Francisco,” he says, referring obliquely to Waymo and its Chinese competitors, which include Pony.ai and WeRide. However, the startup has yet to prove itself in a widespread deployment. Wayve promises to bring partial automation—the vehicle drives itself, but a human must remain alert behind the wheel just in case—to almost any modern car. “The automotive industry is now just building cars that have the right sensing and hardware at millions-of-scale volume to deploy an AI like this,” says Kendall, gesturing at the car’s console, which is stewarding us calmly through the busy streets. The hope is that widely deploying its partially autonomous AI will allow Wayve to collect data to develop one that is capable of fully autonomous driving.As long as it restricts itself to partial autonomy, Wayve can use cheap and widely accessible hardware, which currently powers features such as adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking in many cars. The cameras and computer chips built into the Ford Mustang Mach-E cost a few hundred dollars, according to Kendall. “This is about bringing this technology to any vehicle,” he says. At first glance, this is an impressive edge...
Nashville Opens Portal for Autonomous Vehicle Complaints
The city of Nashville has launched a new autonomous vehicle complaint portal on its hubNashville platform, allowing residents to report any issues or concerns they have with self-driving cars operating in the city. This comes after first responders have handled at least 30 incidents involving Waymo's autonomous vehicles since the company launched its fully driverless service in Nashville in March.
Waymo is set to launch its London pilot this month, here ... - TechRadar
Waymo's driverless taxis are making their way to London, starting with a pilot this month (April 2026), with a full launch coming in September, but what does that mean for the UK's capital?
