News
LatestWaymo Closes $5 Billion Debt Financing to Accelerate Business Expansion
Today, Waymo closed a $5 billion term loan, marking our first debt financing and an important step in our evolution into a scaling commercial enterprise. https://waymo.com/blog/2026/10/waymo-closes-5-billion-debt-financing/...
Technology
LatestSlovakia to approve Tesla’s self-driving tech
Slovakia expects to approve Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system within days, Transport Minister Jozef Raz said in a video posted on LinkedIn on Wednesday afternoon, a decision that would make it the ninth European...
Policy & Regulation
LatestUS Develops Federal Safety Standards as Autonomous Vehicles Expand
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is working on federal rules for autonomous vehicles. US Develops Federal Safety Standards as Autonomous Vehicles Expand...
Finance
LatestWaymo Closes $5 Billion Debt Financing to Accelerate Business Expansion
Today, Waymo closed a $5 billion term loan, marking our first debt financing and an important step in our evolution into a scaling commercial enterprise. https://waymo.com/blog/2026/10/waymo-closes-5-billion-debt-financing/...
Markets
LatestParallel Systems raises $100 million for driverless freight trains
A group of former SpaceX engineers just raised $100 million for their startup, Parallel Systems, to build self-driving, battery-powered freight trains....
Perspective
LatestProtecting Autonomous Vehicles Against Cyberattacks
Driver-assistance systems are now installed in nearly all modern cars. As a result, safety depends on whether computer systems can reliably process sensor data. miragenews.com/protecting-autonomous-vehicles-against-1756893/...
Infrastructure
LatestLyft opened an 80,000-square-foot facility in Tennessee. It isn’t a data center
The facility opened on Thursday under the management of Flexdrive, Lyft’s car-rental arm. Later this month, autonomous vehicles from Alphabet-backed Waymo will start pulling in when they need a charge, repairs, a clean, or...
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Knowledge Center
LatestGIS and landmark-aided autonomous vehicle localization for navigation continuity in urban corridors
Reliable localization is essential for autonomous vehicle navigation in urban corridors where Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning can become unavailable or unreliable....
Webinars & Videos
LatestWaymo CEO: Vision-Only Self-Driving Safety Curve Flattens “Way Too Early”
So, humans can drive with just eyes, so there’s that proof of existence. And if the goal were just to approximately match human performance, or to build an assist product, that’s a very reasonable way to go....
Interviews
LatestExclusive: Waymo says there’s no AI shortcut to self-driving
Waymo’s goal from the start, he said, has been “demonstrably safe AI.” But a growing reliance from competitors on single “end-to-end” AI systems introduces risks....
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