Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

Friday, December 16th, and we're doing a roundup of self-driving car updates.

I'm your host Dylan Lewis, and I'm joined on Skype by

Fool dot com senior tech specialist Daniel Sparks. Daniel how's it going?

Good Dylan thanks for having me in the show. A little blustery over there in

Colorado huh?

Yeah, it's high wind warnings this morning, so it's pretty crazy.

Glad you can't hear it through the microphone.

Yeah, it seems like the kind of weather that you might want some driving assistance, huh?

I guess so.

So Daniel, there's been a ton of news regarding self-driving cars in the past month or so.

Seems like pretty much every major player in the space has come out with an announcement of some sort.

Seems like on our end we were probably due to do a little check in and see what's going on.

How's that sound?

Sounds good.

So the first news that I really noticed, I mean there were other ones that came up in the past couple of weeks, but one that really caught my attention was

Alphabet's self-driving car project doesn't seem to be just a project anymore.

It seems like they're kind of emphasizing this within the alphabet holding structure.

Yeah, we saw that blog post from Waymo is what they're calling it and it'll be interesting to

see where they're taking this for sure.

So in that blog post they said Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility.

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