{"id":374407,"date":"2026-04-04T08:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374407\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:39:20","slug":"wayve-wants-to-take-on-waymo-and-put-self-driving-tech-in-every-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374407\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayve Wants to Take On Waymo\u2014and Put Self-Driving Tech in Every Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Wayve\u2019s versatility across cars and countries&#8217; opens markets that have, so far, gone untapped by its competitors, according to Kendall. The market for car sales is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mordorintelligence.com\/industry-reports\/global-automotive-market\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">worth<\/a> roughly $2 trillion, ten times the taxi <a href=\"https:\/\/straitsresearch.com\/report\/taxi-market\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">market<\/a> in which Waymo currently competes. Tesla, which, like Wayve, develops partial automation software, does not currently offer its software to other car companies. \u201cThe largest opportunity \u2026 is to license technology to any fleet or any automaker,\u201d says Kendall. \u201cI think by the 2030s \u2026 if you&#8217;re selling a car and it doesn&#8217;t have hands-off and eyes-off driving, the demand for that product is going to be near zero.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Wayve plans to begin running its own rides in London and Tokyo in 2026, through Uber, one of its investors, with safety drivers behind the wheel for backup. The deployments will help collect data to train the AI driver and develop \u201cworld models:\u201d simulated worlds that <a href=\"https:\/\/wayve.ai\/thinking\/gaia-3\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wayve<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/waymo.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Waymo<\/a> use to test how their AI will respond to new environments. \u201cData is the biggest bottleneck in robotics\u2014it&#8217;s extremely time-consuming and expensive to gather,\u201d says Anastasis Germanidis, co-CEO of Runway, which makes world models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayve\u2019s versatility across cars and countries&#8217; opens markets that have, so far, gone untapped by its competitors, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-374407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}