- Toyota and Google’s Waymo have announced a partnership to develop a next-generation autonomous vehicle platform.
- Waymo will “begin to incorporate aspects of its technology for personally owned vehicles” as well.
- Waymo also has partnerships with Hyundai and China’s Zeekr.
Two of the biggest names in autonomous vehicles and human-driven ones might be teaming up.
Today, Google’s Waymo and Toyota Motor Corporation announced they are beginning talks to partner on a new autonomous vehicle platform. Moreover, Waymo officials say that with Toyota’s help, they will seek ways to extend their self-driving car technology to personally owned cars.
“Together, we aim to combine our respective strengths to develop a new autonomous vehicle platform and explore how to leverage Waymo’s autonomous technology to enhance the next generation of Toyota’s personally owned vehicles,” Waymo spokesperson Chris Bonelli said in a statement. “Our two companies share a vision of improving road safety and delivering increased mobility for all.”
The exact nature of how Waymo’s technology could come to passenger vehicles is unclear. But Waymo said that it continues to build a “generalizable driver” platform for ride-hailing and commercial purposes, and in the future, it seems that could extend to passenger cars too.
This is a breaking news post. It will be updated shortly.
