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Technology Stocks : Driverless autos, trucks, taxis etc.
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From: Sam10/4/2017 8:26:12 AM
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Here is Ars Technica's article on Waymo's ambition to launch its taxi service within months:

Fully driverless cars could be months away Google's self-driving car unit prepares to launch a taxi service near Phoenix.
Timothy B. Lee - 10/3/2017, 2:11 PM

Real driverless cars could come to the Phoenix area this year, according to a Monday report from The Information's Amir Efrati. Two anonymous sources have told Efrati that Google's self-driving car unit, Waymo, is preparing to launch "a commercial ride-sharing service powered by self-driving vehicles with no human 'safety' drivers as soon as this fall."

Obviously, there's no guarantee that Waymo will hit this ambitious target. But it's a sign that Waymo believes its technology is very close to being ready for commercial use. And it suggests that Waymo is likely to introduce a fully driverless car network in 2018 if it doesn't do so in the remaining months of 2017.
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These are all reasons to doubt whether Waymo will be able to launch a truly driverless taxi service this year as Page would like. However, it's important not to lose sight of the big picture: these are the kinds of problems you worry about when you are months, rather than years, away from launching a commercial product.

Most of Waymo's rivals are aiming to release self-driving cars in 2020, 2021, or later. Even if Waymo's schedule slips a few months and it introduces a self-driving car service in the middle of 2018 instead of late 2017, that will still give the company a multiple-year head start over most of its rivals. And it would confound skeptics who insist that full self-driving technology is still years away.

more at arstechnica.com
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