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In Self-Driving Race, Waymo Sets Its Own Terms

2017-11-01 0 Dailymotion

In Self-Driving Race, Waymo Sets Its Own Terms<br />That is the message Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, tried to send on Monday, when it invited a group of reporters to visit Castle, a facility in California’s Central Valley<br />that it has been using as a training course for its self-driving vehicles.<br />It is aiming for Level 4 autonomy, an official classification for a vehicle<br />that is capable of driving itself, with no human behind the wheel, in most environments and road conditions.<br />It believes that nothing short of Level 4 counts as autonomous, and<br />that bypassing Level 3 (a lower classification, in which some human attention is still required) is necessary to keep people safe on the roads.<br />The company declined to put a date on when it might release self-driving cars to the general public, and Mr. Krafcik spoke only in generalities about its plans, saying<br />that it would focus on ride-hailing and autonomous trucking as possible early business models

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