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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.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 01 2017, @02:48PM
Yup to that ^ with double exclamation marks!! Made a trip from the Yakima valley, to Miami, in an 18-wheeler. It was ice from George, Washington, almost all the way to Memphis. The only places that were scary were Kansas City, and then getting close to Memphis. All the rest of that northern portion were - interesting - and serious - but not entirely nerve wracking. The two cities were most definitely nerve wracking. Finally got into Memphis, and the snow and ice ended, then it was just a tiring drive in the rain the rest of the way to Miami.
Give me serious COLD, any day, over temperatures hovering around freezing. It's much safer to drive on.