It’s the very first autonomous car company to bring driverless cars to the public. These Waymo Self-Driving Cars are available in the greater Phoenix area, Arizona, with the full map. Users can download its app on their smartphones and call the taxi to the location. Previously, safety staff accompanied self-driving cars, but this happened for the first time that a car drove without any human driver but passenger. Before the public launch, Waymo has testing self-driving capabilities using a simulation named CarCraft. Waymo has driven 5 billion miles in a virtual world before getting on the road. Few accident events have been reported during drive testing, but most of them were mistakes of safety drivers or other cars. Only one mistake of the decision was reported where Waymo side-crashed against a bus. Waymo autonomous cars are ready for certain areas, but not for the entire US. Read more

October, 2020