Waymo lobbyists had a busy 2024. A recent review of lobbyist disclosure data by the San Francisco Examiner revealed Waymo paid lobbyists to meet with San

The vehicles Waymo receives from Geely, it says, are “base vehicles,” stripped of telematics systems and any other technology that would allow the vehicle to communicate with, or send data back to, its manufacturer. Only “authorized personnel” install Waymo's self-driving technology into the cars after they’re delivered to the United States.

Waymo more than doubled its lobbying of San Francisco officials in 2024, according to city disclosures updated last week. The autonomous-vehicle company, whose whirring white Jaguars are now commonplace on San Francisco streets, paid lobbyists to meet with city government officials 348 times last year, compared with 137 times in 2023.

A self-driving Waymo car, which is not being blamed for the crash, was among six vehicles struck when a fast-moving vehicle slammed into a line of car stopped at a traffic light at the corner of 6 ...

Google-backed Waymo moves ahead with expansion plans in a number of US cities in 2025, after a successful 2024 that saw 150,000 robotaxi rides every day. Amazon-backed Zoox is gearing up to expand ...

or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of the PRC or Russia – even if those vehicles were made in the United States.” Meanwhile, Waymo, which is planning on using vehicles manufactured by Geely’s Zeekr for its next-gen robotaxi, said that it ...

One of the cars was a Waymo, an autonomous driving vehicle. A spokesperson for Waymo said the car was unoccupied. According to the Waymo spokesperson, their car was struck by another car while it ...

Up to the start of 2024, Google’s self-driv­ing project Waymo had fer­ried pub­lic pas­sen­gers for 1mn trips since the ini­ti­at­ive began in 2009, not 1mn miles as wrongly stated in an ...

The two victims with life-threatening injuries are currently at SF General Hospital. One of the seven vehicles in the crash was a Waymo, an autonomous taxi, video taken on the Citizen App shows. The autonomous vehicle company confirmed one of its cars was ...

South Korea's Hyundai Motor said on Thursday it is in talks with General Motors to supply commercial electric vehicles to its U.S. peer, as it expects sales growth to halve this year due to softening demand.

Wong, who lives in San Francisco, told TechCrunch that she was able to customize the characters on the self-driving Jaguar I-Pace dome by fiddling with the Waymo mobile app on her Android phone as she waited for the robotaxi to show up.

A police body cam has captured an interaction between an officer and a Waymo driverless car. The Phoenix cop pulled the self-driving car over for driving on the wrong side of the road. However, the police officer couldn’t ticket the machine because,