Google self-driving car project

Waymo Via backs away from autonomous trucking

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Alphabet Inc. is indefinitely delaying its Waymo Via autonomous trucking unit to focus efforts on...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/waymo-via-backs-away-from-autonomous-trucking

Aurora applying robot truck lessons to robotaxis that once led driverless parade

Before autonomous startups decided to field autonomous trucks before driverless cars, passenger vehicles had an edge in attention and investment. Now it is the lessons learned from robotic trucks that are being applied to Aurora Innovation’s ride-hailing robotaxis.

Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR) is one of two competitors in autonomous truck development that started with autonomous car projects. The other is Alphabet subsidiary Waymo and its trucking offshoot Waymo Via, which evolved from the original...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/aurora-applying-robot-truck-lessons-to-robotaxis-that-once-led-driverless-parade

How much do Waymo Via’s autonomous trucks benefit from driverless cars?

More than any autonomous trucking startup, Waymo Via claims that a dozen years of self-driving car development from the original Google self-driving car program affords unparalleled lessons for creating autonomous trucks.

The case is one that only one other autonomous trucking startup can make. That is Aurora Innovation, which has melded technology from the acquisition of Uber’s ATG unit into its Aurora Driver software that Paccar and Volvo have embraced.

Waymo has more real-world miles and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-much-do-waymo-vias-autonomous-trucks-benefit-from-driverless-cars