Recently uncovered case files from the Waymo vs Otto trade secret theft case, reveal Uber’s optimism with self-driving cars in 2016, which included the company envision running 75,000 self-driving vehicles across 13 cities by 2022.
Thousands of retail stores to shutdown this year; Amazon’s Whole Foods increases grocery prices citing inflation; U.S. retail sales record worst drop since 2009.
Pronto built a high-performing Level 2 solution for commercial vehicles with dynamic throttling, braking, and steering.
How close are human drivers to interacting with autonomous vehicles on the roads? That is the answer a panel at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit tried to solve on Wednesday.
As far as investors are concerned, the trade war is effectively back on.
The credit rating agency says that well-capitalized, risk-sharing joint ventures between incumbent automakers have the best chance of successfully bringing AV products to market safely and at scale.
Oil anxieties across the Middle East are ratcheting up. Waymo racks up 10 million test miles ahead of launching its robotaxi business. The US threatens to act over China’s online cost advantage on postal fees.
XPO Logistics’ CFO Hardig resigns; Shanghai – Los Angeles container rates spike; watch heavy haulers move SpaceX rockets; Canadian National publishes its first annual ‘Grain Plan’; meet the teen who rides in a self-driving Waymo vehicle every morning.
Waymo is partnering with Valley Metro, a public transportation authority in Arizona, to shuttle people to and from public transportation stops via autonomous cars – thus planting its feet firmly in the race to put self-driving vehicles on the road.
Rhode Island begins tolling trucks today; SCOTUS rejects review request by JB Hunt on California case; Rolls-Royce engine problems spread; transportation companies fret over tariffs; Waymo to buy up to 62,000 Chrysler Pacificas.
Irrespective of who wins the race to deploy the first fully autonomous vehicles, the unanimous view was that in the future, size is going to matter and carriers/OEMs will need balance sheets to be able to survive.
April 1st promises a surge of HOS violations; Uber pulls out of Southeast Asia; China starts trading oil futures; US Customs looks to upgrade their digital tools; Kansas City Southern hit by new tax bills.
Another aspect of Uber’s legacy that persists: secrecy.
A rash of recent announcements from tech startups have revealed that self-driving trucks are already among us–and there is nothing to fear.
Waymo announced late on Friday that its self-driving trucks will begin delivering goods for Google’s logistics operation in Atlanta.
5 days into the trial, Uber settled the Waymo lawsuit on the cheap. But who really benefits? We break down the deal here.
New truck orders jumped in January, reaching their second highest level on record, according to data from FTR and ACT Research.
A one-day brake enforcement inspection by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance resulted in 14% of commercial vehicles in the U.S. and Canada being placed out of service for brake violations. A full 22% of vehicles were placed out of service for some kind of violation, CVSA said.
As the trial date later this month quickly approaches, Waymo LLC is starting to feel some additional heat from U.S. District Judge William Alsup as details of Waymo v. Uber begin to surface, ARS Technica reports.
One of 2017’s biggest stories in the emerging autonomous vehicles industry—Waymo’s $2.6B lawsuit against Uber over stolen trade secrets—revolves around a single piece of technology that is currently fueling a frenzied global competition for investment dollars, engineering expertise, and manufacturing capacity.
