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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 14 2016, @08:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-they-don't-make-frisbees dept.

Google's self-driving car project will become an independent company within Alphabet Inc. called "Waymo".

From the announcement post on Medium:

Today, we're taking our next big step by becoming Waymo, a new Alphabet business. Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. We're a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.

[...] Waymo may be a new company, but we're building on advanced self-driving technology developed over many years at Google. On October 20, 2015, we completed the world's first fully-self driven car ride. Steve Mahan rode alone in one of our prototype vehicles, cruising through Austin's suburbs. Steve is legally blind, so our sensors and software were his chauffeur. His route reflected the way millions of people could use a self-driving car in everyday life: riding from a park to a doctor's office and through typical neighborhoods. This ride was possible because our cars can now handle the most difficult driving tasks, such as detecting and responding to emergency vehicles, mastering multi-lane four-way stops, and anticipating what unpredictable humans will do on the road. We've honed these skills over 2 million miles of real-world driving, and in the last year alone we've completed one billion miles of testing in simulation.


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  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:25AM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:25AM (#441224) Homepage Journal

    Couldn't they have figured out a better name? Even Way.ly or waymo.io sound better than this!

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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:43AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:43AM (#441227)

    I can think of some names that are WayMo better.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @02:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @02:33PM (#441270)

    Sounds like the name of a fat farm.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday December 14 2016, @04:35PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 14 2016, @04:35PM (#441318) Journal

    I would have picked: KnowGo!

    (think about the pronounciation of that)

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    • (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:10PM

      by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:10PM (#441390) Homepage
      It's almost like naming a car Nova and then trying to sell it in Spanish speaking countries.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @06:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @06:58PM (#441385)

    They must have been watching that one episode of Adventure Time.