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Waymo Partners with Toyota, Opening Door to Sell Autonomous Vehicles to Consumers (fuelarc.com)

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We wondered what Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai meant when he said on their earnings call last Thursday that for Waymos, “there is future optionality for personal ownership.”

Well, we only had to wait a minute to find out. Waymo announced today that they’re developing autonomous technology with a little automotive manufacturer you may have heard of: Toyota.

Tucked into the announcement, Waymo also plans to release a generalizable autonomous driving system for any given vehicle. Read our full analysis!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

That's my exact reaction to Waymos (also San Francisco). Both surreal and probably the direction of all automotive transit.