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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 03 2019, @04:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the waymo-gate? dept.

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Waymo finally let a reporter ride in a fully driverless car

It's been almost two years since Waymo first announced that it was testing fully autonomous vehicles on public roads. Not long afterwards, the company said it planned to offer a fully driverless service to the public by the end of 2018.

The rollout has been a lot slower than expected. Over the course of 2018, most of Waymo's cars continued to have drivers behind the wheel. When Waymo launched its commercial service in December 2018, every car had a driver behind the wheel.

But now Waymo seems to be cautiously moving forward with fully driverless technology. Last month, Waymo told people in its closed testing program that they'd start getting rides in driverless vehicles. Now in a new piece for Techcrunch, Ed Niedermeyer reports on his own experience riding in a fully driverless car.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 04 2019, @04:10PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 04 2019, @04:10PM (#915754) Journal

    [Musk] was trying to become the first car manufacturer who has FSD, but it just didn't happen.

    FSD?

    But Musk already is the first car manufacturer with Fulltime Stuttering Defect.

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