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Waymo released data showing its autonomous vehicles have fewer injury-causing crashes than human drivers. This provides a major safety benchmark for the AI and robotics industry as regulators consider the future of driverless cars.
Waymo's co-CEO argues camera-only systems can't achieve full self-driving, only matching human drivers at best. This directly challenges Tesla's approach, stating that Lidar and radar are non-negotiable for safe, fully autonomous vehicles.
Waymo is repurposing old electric robotaxi batteries for power grids in California and Texas. This gives the batteries a second life storing renewable energy, creating a practical circular economy model for the tech industry.
Waymo has announced a strategic supply agreement with B2U Storage Solutions. The deal will see used batteries from its autonomous robotaxi fleet repurposed for stationary energy storage, providing hundreds of megawatt-hours of backup power to local grids and creating a circular economy for its hardware.