A recent Waymo car accident in Arizona has captured public attention, highlighting concerns about the safety of autonomous vehicles. This incident, involving a driverless vehicle from Waymo, raises important questions about the reliability of self-driving technology.

The new Waymo safety data hub uses the publicly available data that NHTSA publishes to compare collisions involving Waymo vehicles to data involving human drivers, making the results replicable for other researchers. John Scanlon and Kristofer Kusano, both safety researchers at Waymo, did the research.

Waymo has purchased vehicles from Stellantis and Jaguar Land Rover and integrated its technology into the base vehicles

Waymo, the driverless car company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has launched a new website touting the safety record of its fleet of hundreds of autonomous vehicles in California and Arizona.

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 could become Waymo's next self-driving taxi, deploying a new generation of the Google spinoff's Waymo Driver autonomous-driving system, Reuters reports.

Alphabet's Waymo is in talks with South Korea's Hyundai Motor to outsource manufacturing of its self-driving vehicles, South Korean newspaper, Electronic Times, reported. Officials at Waymo and Hyundai Motor have met more than three times to discuss a plan to use Hyundai's Ioniq 5 electric vehicles for Waymo's sixth-generation self-driving technology,

The latest partnership between the companies comes as self-driving cars are gaining traction.

Alphabet's Waymo is reportedly in talks with Hyundai Motor to outsource manufacturing of its self-driving vehicles. Read an update here.