Cruise and Waymo win robotaxi 🚕 🤖 expansions in San Francisco
Sep 1, 2023
Following a contentious state agency vote, Google self-driving car Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise are allowed to take paying passengers day or night throughout San Francisco, solidifying the tech hub as the center of the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry. It marks a significant step forward for the nascent technology.
🛞 About the Waymo Driver’s Rapid Learning Curve 🔄
Navigating around and yielding to active emergency vehicles can be challenging for both autonomous and human drivers. Waymo Driver encounters active emergency vehicles every 100 miles in their rider-only operations. That’s roughly 100+ encounters per day!
