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Waymo Reaches 4 Million Autonomously-Driven Miles

posted by Fnord666 on Friday December 01 2017, @02:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the need-to-drive-waymo-miles dept.

takyon writes:

Waymo racks up 4 million self-driven miles

Waymo continues to press its lead in terms of actual miles driven on roads, which is potentially the most important metric out there when it comes to building successful autonomous driving technology. The Alphabet-owned company that began life as Google's self-driving car project around a decade ago now has 4 million miles driven autonomously on roads.

That 4 million miles represents the self-driving effort of Waymo's entire test fleet, covering its original autonomous vehicles all the way up to its current driverless Chrysler Pacifica minivans, which are actually now testing on Arizona public roads, right alongside everyday human drivers, with no safety driver behind the wheel at all.

In simulations, Waymo's bots have driven 2.5 billion "virtual miles".

Also at The Verge.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Friday December 01 2017, @06:13AM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday December 01 2017, @06:13AM (#603819) Journal

    It's not like human drivers are that great at navigating snow/sleet conditions. They skid and crash.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by opinionated_science on Friday December 01 2017, @11:03AM (2 children)

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Friday December 01 2017, @11:03AM (#603859)

    this!! An even if you have had training (which I have) the main rule is "don't go out if you don't need to".

    The illusion of control is what most humans have, until physics provides a hard stop!

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday December 01 2017, @06:37PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 01 2017, @06:37PM (#603999) Journal

      the main rule is "don't go out if you don't need to".

      Because of snow?

      Or because of self driving cars?

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