Waymo is expected to kick off its self-driving car service in Phoenix next month, marking the first commercial autonomous fleet in the world to serve the public. It'll also likely have a new brand.
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At the ongoing CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Toyota announced its partnership with Amazon, Pizza Hut, and Uber to develop driverless vehicles for delivering products to consumers in the future.
Even though Tencent has huge shares in semi-autonomous car maker Tesla the company is still working on its own prototypes. Its vehicle bid will make it the biggest contender amongst Chinese companies.
The journalists were invited to the secret test facility "Castle," where they were driven around, with no driver, in Waymo's Chrysler Pacificas; dodging squirrels, boxes, and a convertible.
A division of Google's Alphabet, known as Waymo, has unveiled its latest self-driving car. Having teamed up with Chrysler in May, the vehicle is expected to be ready for road use by early 2017.
Somewhere in the San Francisco Bay area, there's a top secret Google research facility working on everything from robots to space elevators. This week's Trivia Tuesday takes a closer look at Google X.
Google might have a driverless car, but Microsoft's got a driverless cloud connected gaming powerhouse, a number crunching workhorse, and a jukebox, and it folds to boot - that's the concept, at least
