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

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: 2) by DannyB on Friday December 01 2017, @02:40PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 01 2017, @02:40PM (#603899) Journal

    If there is one thing, it's autonomous vehicles are NOT in not "in the hurry".

    There is that problem. But another problem with autonomous vehicles is that they don't get road rage.

    Imagine how bad life would be if all cars drove calmly while passengers could relax and engage in other more useful, productive or merely entertaining activities.

    Idea: what we need is a new Road Rage reality tv show!

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