Everyone (Pony.ai started trucking as well) is converging to trucking as the canonical use cases. Let's see how this affect the existing self-driving firms.
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#12Does Phoenix have laws that make them more attractive for testing or just location preference?
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#13Does a self-driving truck need a sleeper cab? Is the sleeper compartment filled with equipment?
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#14There's a rideshare company called Via. Is this intentionally designed to take away their SEO?? I'd be surprised if there isn't a trademark challenge for this, they're a competitor with Waymo.
There's a lot of things called Via, including a rail company
This is way too close. I was sure this was a google project. Hopefully google will sue them for using a trademarked name too close to theirs.
Or would you like to try my new credit card makers, MasterCarte (ooh, that's probably already real ;-)), Vesa and MasterChief.
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#15Does Phoenix have laws that make them more attractive for testing or just location preference?
Not much precipitation in Phoenix, and the roads tend to be dry.
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#16There's a rideshare company called Via. Is this intentionally designed to take away their SEO?? I'd be surprised if there isn't a trademark challenge for this, they're a competitor with Waymo.
It is the two-thousand-year old word for “road”, and an English preposition.
Anyone who picked it as a trademark for anything knew what they were getting themselves into.
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#17Does a self-driving truck need a sleeper cab? Is the sleeper compartment filled with equipment?
Most likely there are drivers still on board to monitor and drive first and last mile.
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#19Does Phoenix have laws that make them more attractive for testing or just location preference?
Uber was testing there because the local city government was easy to work with initially. After their fatal incident, the city became more restrictive, but Google/Waymo had already also moved in and started testing there, and because they didn't have any issues, I presume the city continued to work with them.
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#20Does a self-driving truck need a sleeper cab? Is the sleeper compartment filled with equipment?
Hard to find a chassis with the rest of the accoutrements for long-haul trucking (fuel tanks, etc..) without a sleeper cab.