Waymo and Waze are teaming up to save your car tires from potholes

Waymo and Waze are teaming up to help prevent people from driving into potholes. On Thursday, the companies announced a joint pilot program that will take pothole data collected by Waymo’s robotaxis and display it on Waze for Cities. The robotaxis already have cameras, radar, and other sensors that can be used, among other things, to note potholes. Waze, the community-driven GPS navigation app, and Waymo are both owned by Google parent Alphabet. The tool is an additional means of spotting potholes on Waze. Users have long been able to report any potholes they see through the Waze app.  “Thi...