Amazon hopes to deliver 10,000 robotaxis annually with new factory in California, challenging Waymo

This sounds very ambitious! Robotaxis everywhere! 😊

Do individuals/families/consumers still need to own our own car? Maybe this will also become a thing of the past very soon!

"Amazon is gearing up to make as many as 10,000 robotaxis annually at a sprawling plant near Silicon Valley as it prepares to challenge self-driving cab leader Waymo. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is also vying to join the autonomous race.

The 220,000-square-foot (20,440-square-meter) robotaxi factory announced Wednesday heralds a new phase in Amazon’s push into a technological frontier that began taking shape in 2009, when Waymo was launched as a secret project within Google.

Amazon began eyeing the market five years ago when it shelled out $1.2 billion for self-driving startup Zoox, which will be the brand behind a robotaxi service that plans to begin transporting customers in Las Vegas late this year before expanding into San Francisco next year.

Zoox, conceived in 2014, will be trying to catch up to Waymo, which began operating robotaxis in Phoenix nearly five years ago. It started charging for rides in San Francisco in 2023 and also expanded into Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. Waymo says it has recorded more than 10 million paid rides while other would-be rivals such as Amazon and Tesla are still fine-tuning their self-driving technology and tackling how to ramp up their fleet. ..."

Amazon hopes to deliver 10,000 robotaxis annually with new factory, challenging Waymo | AP News

Briefporto soll Anfang 2025 steigen um bis zu 10,5%: Standardbrief könnte 95 Cent kosten. Wirklich!

Wer benutzt denn heute noch die Post am Ende des ersten Viertels des 21igsten Jahrhunderts!

Wieviel Müll landet täglich im Briefkasten?

Briefporto soll Anfang 2025 steigen: Standardbrief könnte 95 Cent kosten "Ihren Antrag auf eine Portoerhöhung hatte die Post damit begründet, dass Personal immer teurer wird und die Energiekosten steigen. Sie argumentierte außerdem, dass sie immer mehr Elektrofahrzeuge einsetzt, die klimafreundlich, aber teurer sind."

Very Old Fashioned Institute For Advanced Studies

Posted: 2/6/2019

Just watched a lecture video published by the Institute for Advanced Studies located on Einstein Drive in Princeton, New Jersey. Originally, I was watching a lecture from April 3, 2017 given by Ran Raz when I discovered that the lectures at the IAS are still using chalk and blackboard. As an aside, Ran Raz was even using a dry sponge to clean the chalk of the blackboard, well you can imagine what that looked like ...

I thought, OK this video was recorded almost to years ago. Let’s see the most recent available video. At the time of writing this blog, this was: Non-commutative rank by Visu Makam University of Michigan; Member, School of Mathematics February 5, 2019.

I could not believe that the lecturers at the IAS are still using the extremely outdated technology of chalk and blackboard. I was actually deeply shocked that such brilliant minds waste time and effort on this ancient technology in the digital age. This is highly inefficient and amateurish! Almost like throwback!