Waymo authorized for commercial self driving service in the USA

February 17, 2018 by Brian Wang

Waymo, the self-driving Google spinoff, has been given legal permission to operate as a Transportation Network Company in the state of Arizona. Waymo has been running a pilot program that lets people call for rides in its cars, at first with safety engineers riding in the driver’s seat, but fully driverless since November 2017. MIT …

Uber and Waymo have settled lawsuit for $245 million in Uber stock

February 11, 2018 by Brian Wang

Waymo had originally sought a $1 billion settlement last year before the trial got underway, but Uber rejected that deal. Waymo has settled for 0.34 percent of Uber’s equity at the company’s $72 billion valuation, which is around $245 million. Uber cannot use any of Waymo’s hardware or software trade secrets as one of the …