Waymo, the autonomous driving technology subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL), recently reached a valuation exceeding $45 billion in a new fundraising round. The company, which operates driverless cars in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin, raised $5.6 billion in the funding round, including existing Waymo investors Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity and Perry Creek, according to Bloomberg. Users can order driverless taxis through the Waymo app. By some metrics, Waymo’s autonomous cars are already safer than human drivers, according) to the Autonomous Vehicle Industry…
