Play Really Google Driverless Car Officially Takes Off the Street

Netease Technology News April 25 news, according to foreign media USATODAY report, eight years ago, Google began to develop its own driverless technology, eight years, equipped with Google unmanned technology vehicles have completed 2 million miles of testing, It is finally going to be carried.

Earlier, Google has renamed its own driverless car company Waymo. Starting this Tuesday, Waymo will begin to receive applications from residents of the Phoenix area who want to participate in its large-scale driverless car test program. The selected residents will join their fleet of hundreds of people. Take a Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid minicar equipped with a Waymo hybrid automatic driving sensor.

In the past few months, Waymo has screened many residents of the Phoenix area to test its driverless car service. To allow these residents to participate in the new large-scale test initiated by Waymo, Waymo will provide 600 Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid minicars for hundreds of testers in the Phoenix area.

At present, a large group of car manufacturers and technology companies have stated that they will develop self-driving cars capable of providing taxi services around 2020, including autos such as Ford, GM, Toyota, Volvo, Nissan, and BMW. The industry giant.

But Waymo’s driverless car project in Arizona is clearly closer to achieving its goal.

By licensing its software and hardware technology to those taxi companies, Waymo is expected to recoup its investment in driverless technology over the years, and taxi companies can use the driverless technology provided by Waymo to cut off their business models. The most burned part: the driver.

"We have to say that our business model has yet to be decided, and our most important task at hand is to learn more about how people will use this technology," said Waymo CEO John Krafcik in the media. This was said during the interview.

“This is the first time we have live passengers sitting in our driverless car to interact,” said Klafusik. “This is a very, very big step for us.”

Although according to Arizona law, driverless cars can be tested without human drivers in the car, this Chrysler Pacifica team will initially have at least one Waymo employee on each car.

“But they're sitting in the car just to help us collect more information about how people use our driving services,” Klafusik explained. “Our driverless cars will be responsible for all driving tasks. ”

Last summer, Uber’s driverless car project was first tested, allowing real passengers to sit in the test vehicle. However, Waymo's pilot project seems to be more comprehensive than Uber's previous experiment. Whether it is the number of unmanned cars participating in the test or the amount of data that Waymo hopes to gain from the passenger experience, the scale of this test at Waymo far exceeds Uber's actual human testing scale.

The scale-up test will use 600 Chrysler Pacifica vehicles equipped with driverless technology. Last year, Waymo's partner, Fiat Chrysler Automotive, provided it with only 100 test vehicles.

According to Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Motors, they will start production of the 500 new custom Chrysler Pacifica cars that will be added to Waymo next month, and the new cars will soon follow. Will be installed by Waymo company's sensors.

"The cooperation between Fiat Chrysler and Waymo is a win-win for both companies. We will continue to work together to develop a better understanding of the stages that will be needed to truly bring unmanned gas to market." Joey said in a statement.

Klafusik said that all participants will be "encouraged to use Waymo's services to meet all their transportation needs," and it will cover all the needs of sports activities ranging from daily commuting to weekends. Klafusik also said that he is looking for a large number of test users for this "hundreds of people's caravans" in order to meet the needs of this large driverless car project.

Volunteers who were selected for this test will not have to pay for any of the Waymo driverless cars, Klafusik added.

Klafusik also said that Waymo chose the residents of the Phoenix area to participate in this test mainly because people in the Phoenix area are very dependent on their cars for daily life. In addition to Phoenix, Waymo also tested its driverless car technology in other cities, including its headquarters in Kingstown, California, Kirkland, Washington, and Austin, Texas.

For years, Google engineers have been testing their radar, cameras, and LiDAR sensors on Lexus SUVs. In 2015, a small two-seater car designed by Google began quietly around the Google headquarters building for a surround test, and then it was tested in other cities.

Last year, Fiat Chrysler Automotive, a Google partner partner, provided 100 Pacifica driverless mini-cars for Google’s driverless car project. Nowadays, Fiat-Chrysler Motor Company once again provided Google with 500 extra Pacifica driverless mini-cars.

Waymo is not always on the road to developing a driverless car. Last summer, Christopher Urmson, who was head of the Google driverless car project for years, suddenly left the company. Since then, Ommon has been secretly leading his own driverless car company.

A few months ago, Waymo sued Uber and accused Anthony Levandowski, the founder of the company's Otto driver company, of stealing its LiDAR from Google while working at Google. technology. LiDAR is a key optical detection and identification technology that helps driverless cars "see" their location. (stop water)

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