Why we’re getting self-driving delivery before self-driving Ubers
Self-driving cars and trucks are everywhere, it seems. Especially in the news.
We were inundated this week with media reports about huge progress on the autonomous vehicle front.
The press reported that Google — I mean Waymo — ordered “thousands” of minivans to build a fleet of autonomous vehicles that will ferry members of Waymo’s “early rider program.” The company — Alphabet’s self-driving car startup that used to be part of Google — is already ferrying passengers around a small neighborhood in Phoenix — and with no drivers in the cars. Self-driving cars are also carrying passengers in Boston, Pittsburgh and elsewhere.