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Google CEO Sundar Pichai described Tesla as a leader in the autonomous vehicle sector, positioning it alongside Waymo, during his appearance at the New York Times DealBook Summit.
“I think obviously Tesla is a leader in the space. It looks to me like Tesla and Waymo are the top two,” Pichai said. Immediately before, the chief executive of Google had noted that Tesla “is making amazing progress too.”
Over the past week, Tesla began rolling out the latest version of its Supervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) software to customers. On the last day of October, Tesla’s Vice President of AI Software, Ashok Elluswamy stated that the FSD team is “aiming to get to feature complete for unsupervised FSD with the v13 series.”
“I mean Tesla is making amazing progress too. I think you know we are in six to seven cities already by the end of this year” Pichai stated adding later “In the U.S. by next year we will be in like ten cities.”
Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, recently announced plans to deploy its all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles in Miami, with public ride-hailing services expected to begin in 2026.
Waymo currently provides over 150,000 trips per week in Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin. Last month, the company raised $5.6 billion in an investment round led by Alphabet.
Tesla announced on Friday that the Cybertruck can now charge at up to 325 kW on select V4 Supercharger posts. The V4 Supercharger post is capable of providing up to 500kW when paired with the V4 cabinet, which is set to launch in 2025.
Written by Cláudio Afonso | LinkedIn | X
