Google self-driving car project

The future of Waymo Via had been whispered about for months after parent Alphabet Inc. cut thousands of jobs across the company earlier this year.

With Aurora Driver 2.0, the self-driving developer plans to field the first robotic ride-hailing minivans along with Class 8 trucks.

Waymo autonomous truck engineering lead Boris Sofman makes the case that a decade of self-driving car efforts blazed the path to driverless trucks.