Waymo's customized taxi Ojai is fully integrated with Gemini, opening up a new experience of intelligent interaction in the car. As a leading player in the global autonomous driving field, Waymo recently officially announced a major upgrade: deeply integrating Google's Gemini artificial intelligence assistant into its customized self-driving taxi Ojai specially designed for online ride-hailing scenarios.

Waymo's customized taxi Ojai is fully integrated with Gemini, opening up a new experience of intelligent interaction in the car. As a leading player in the global autonomous driving field, Waymo recently officially announced a major upgrade: the deep integration of Google's Gemini artificial intelligence assistant into its customized self-driving taxi Ojai specially built for online ride-hailing scenarios, marking that unmanned logistics and travel are accelerating towards high intelligence. In terms of market layout and operational progress, this new Ojai model equipped with Gemini assistant has been fully opened to all ordinary users in Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco. According to official plans, Waymo plans to further expand the service to new cities such as Denver, Las Vegas and San Diego later this year. In terms of travel options, when calling online ride-hailing services in the future, passengers will be able to freely choose between the new Ojai model and the existing Jaguar I-Pace self-driving taxi based on their needs. In terms of core functions and interactive experience, the in-car Gemini assistant, currently in the Beta testing stage, brings a more natural and smooth voice interaction mode to passengers. During the trip, passengers can easily adjust the temperature in the car, find nearby places of interest, and listen to introductions to famous landmarks along the way, etc. just through daily conversations. In addition, if a passenger requests to pull over to the AI, the instruction will be safely transferred to the underlying Waymo Driver for unified dispatching and processing. In terms of system security and architecture design, the in-car AI assistant maintains a high degree of independence from the core autonomous driving underlying system. Gemini cannot directly access the vehicle's real-time driving data, nor can it directly intervene in the vehicle's underlying control permissions. Waymo said that in the future, it will rely on this new intelligent interaction layer to continue to polish and improve various functions to provide passengers with a more comfortable and personalized ride experience while ensuring absolute driving safety. via AI News (author: AI Base)