Waymo, the autonomous car unit owned by Google mum or dad Alphabet Inc., is taking extra workplace house in San Francisco. The corporate is subleasing greater than 48,000 sq. ft at 555 Market Avenue within the metropolis’s monetary district from Uber Applied sciences Inc. Waymo already has house within the Bayview neighborhood, whereas Google has a number of workplaces within the metropolis. The brand new lease for Waymo is a vote of confidence for an workplace market that has been slower to rebound from the pandemic than different main U.S. cities, with know-how employers embracing distant and hybrid work. Whereas Google has maintained its house in San Francisco, many different tech corporations have sought to dump thousands and thousands of sq. ft they beforehand leased.

— Bloomberg

Ohio officers final week marked the official opening of what has been dubbed the nation’s longest related freeway. The 33 Good Mobility Hall, a 35-mile stretch of U.S. Route 33, is outfitted with a fiber-optic community and “state-of-the-art” roadway sensors. It’s a proving floor for automated and related car know-how. The hall runs from Dublin to the Transportation Analysis Middle in East Liberty.

— Leslie J. Allen