Following many other tech companies in recent days, Waymo and Google announced today that it’s no longer having an in-person presence at CES 2022 due to the “quickly evolving COVID infection rates.”
Update 1:38 p.m. PT: Google is following Waymo in pulling its show floor presence — usually a large booth outside — at CES 2022. All announcements will be done virtually.
Original 9:25 a.m. PT: Just last week, Alphabet’s autonomous car company announced that it was “excited” to show the “full range of vehicles on which we operate the Waymo Driver at CES for the first time.” Waymo was going to have a large booth (West Hall 5604) that featured the L4 Class-8 Freightliner Cascadia truck, Waymo Via delivery minivans (painted blue versus white), and the Jaguar I-Pace.
Waymo employees were set to give at least six presentations at the booth.That said, the company will still have a virtual presence “in some CES-related events”:
This follows Meta (Facebook), Amazon, and Lenovo also pulling out over the past few days. As the first companied pulled out, the Consumer Technology Association reiterated yesterday that it was going to continue with the in-person trade show.
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