Waabi Self-Driving Trucks Use Augmented Reality to Play Catch-Up

Raquel Urtasun spent a few days in June working from a large tent in the Arizona desert. It came with a number of un-tentlike amenities, such as indoor plumbing and air conditioning to provide relief from the 110F heat, but its main appeal to Urtasun, who runs the self-driving truck startup Waabi, was its proximity to a 2-mile-long track where she can test her company’s hulking autonomous vehicles. Both tent and track are located inside a private facility where companies can perform critical, and sometimes perilous, field research, from ramming cars into one another to carrying out controlled explosions. ...