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Ep 65: China vs US: Who Can Scale Faster, WeRide or Waymo?

This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss Uber and WeRide’s fully autonomous launch in Abu Dhabi, marking Uber’s first robotaxi deployment without a safety driver outside the United States. On WeRide’s earnings, the company announced a fleet of 1,600 autonomous vehicles with 750 robotaxis, while Pony.ai announced plans to triple its…

Ep 64: Waymo’s Six Stages of Autonomy

This week on ⁠Autonomy Markets⁠, ⁠Grayson Brulte⁠ and ⁠Walter Piecyk⁠ discuss Waymo’s accelerated nationwide expansion with new markets, Minneapolis, Tampa, New Orleans, Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando getting ready to come online, while breaking down and coin Waymo’s Six Stages of Autonomy. As ⁠Waymo⁠ expands, competition is brewing in Dallas where ⁠Avride⁠ in partnership with…

Ep 63: Waymo’s Highway Unlock Is Real. Its Moat Still Isn’t

This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss Waymo’s great highway unlock, their Bay Area expansion to 260 square miles and the launch of commercial service at the San Jose Airport. Despite the expansion, Waymo remains sharply vehicle-constrained. Bloomberg reported this week that the company is operating roughly 1,000 vehicles in the Bay Area, 700 in Los Angeles,…

Ep 62: Waymo Expands, Lyft Builds, Uber Ducks as Tesla Rewrites the Autonomy Script

This week on ⁠Autonomy Markets⁠, ⁠Grayson Brulte⁠ and ⁠Walter Piecyk⁠ discuss Waymo’s expansion into three new markets, Uber’s role in autonomy and Lyft’s growing infrastructure ambitions.  Beneath the headlines, Tesla is aiming to once again reshape the entire autonomous driving industry with their AI5 chip, FSD Unsupervised deployment, and the expansion of their insurance business. As Tesla continues to focus…

Ep 61: Nvidia’s Autonomy Ambitions and More Waymo-Uber Drama

This week on Autonomy Markets, Grayson Brulte and Walter Piecyk discuss NVIDIA’s ever expanding autonomy ambitions and the fracturing relationship between Waymo and Uber, which may signal the end of one of the industry’s most-watched partnerships. Jensen Huang’s latest GTC announcements further signaled that NVIDIA is moving beyond supplying compute to potentially building their own…