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Waymo Trials Rides For Shoppers In Arizona

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To offer shoppers rides in self-driving vehicles, Alphabet ’s Waymo is starting a trial run for Walmart customers in Arizona. Beyond Walmart, Waymo is working with DDR Corp to provide diners and shoppers with rides to a shopping center in Chandler, Arizona. The technology has undergone five billion hours of simulations, he said.

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Uber Self-Driving Car Kills Arizona Pedestrian

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Uber ’s self-driving car in Tempe, Arizona, struck and killed a pedestrian Sunday night (March 18), marking the first known fatality of a pedestrian by an autonomous vehicle. Some incredibly sad news out of Arizona,” wrote Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Twitter on Monday (March 19), according to the WSJ.

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Arizona Autonomous Vehicle Tests Build On World’s Fair Legacy

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And not everyone in Arizona can hitch a ride with the vehicle: Waymo said in a Medium post that it was opening up to “early riders from our research program” before it slowly rolls it out to other riders, with safety as a factor in the speed of the launch. For starters, the state’s rules for driverless cars aren’t as strict as California’s.

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Autonomous Delivery Startup Nuro Nets $500M In Funding On $5B Valuation

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The company, according to Co-Founder Jiajun Zhu , is based around the idea of improving peoples' lives through various kinds of robotic inventions, including their first one, a self-driving vehicle operating electronically to deliver goods to people.

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Uber Targets Senior Riders With Phone Booking Service

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The service is starting in Arizona, where users can call 1-833-USE-UBER to speak with a live representative. The telephone operator service has previously been tested in India , Egypt, Ukraine and Mexico. Uber is launching a new telephone booking service aimed at older consumers in the U.S.

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CORO Global Brings Gold Payment App To Alabama

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The company – and its gold trading app – just expanded its reach in the United States with the addition of a license to operate in Alabama. CORO says its app is designed to fend off cyberattacks through the use of hashgraph distributed ledger technology (DLT). The future is looking a bit more golden for CORO Global.

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New Digital Experiences Keep Credit Unions Relevant – And Then Some

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Like their cousins in banking, credit unions (CUs) long enjoyed a relaxed pace of technological change. Arizona-based FI consulting firm Cornerstone Advisors noted that just three major banks have 47 percent of the accounting and payment services sector’s $11 billion.”. It was all on their timetable. Not anymore.

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