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     Waymo Builds A Vision Based End-To-End Driving Model, Like Tesla/Wayve

     Waymo just announced Oct 29 that they are now doing 150,000 real self-driving rides per week for paying customers, so they are doing a superb job.

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   What is the Waymo driver?

   • Since our start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World’s Most Experienced Driver TM —to improve everyone’s access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.

   FAQ - Answers to Questions About Self-Driving Cars - Waymo

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   Can a Waymo driver drive a car remotely?

   • The Waymo Driver contacts a call centre, where a customer service representative can monitor the situation and help the Driver make a decision. The rep can’t, however, drive the car remotely. That isn’t an option. What happens when a Waymo self-driving car breaks down?

   The Google Self-Driving Car: All you need to know about Waymo

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   What is Waymo's self-driving software?

   • Waymo's self-driving software is the brain of the car. It makes sense of all the information coming from the sensors and uses it in real time to drive itself. (Note: The Passage as provided already answers the question directly, so no modifications were made to the Passage.)

   Learn how Waymo drives - Waymo Help - Google Help

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   What cars and technology does Waymo use?

   • Using a variety of cars, including Lexus SUVs and Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid MPVs, Waymo’s autonomous vehicle technology involves lidar, cameras and other sensors to read, map and analyse their environments.

   The Google Self-Driving Car: All you need to know about Waymo

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   How does Waymo work?

   • Waymo’s suite of sensors — complete with camera, lidar, and radar — works in unison to provide the Waymo Driver with complementary, overlapping views of its surroundings. Redundancies are essential in an autonomous driving system to provide safe backup functions for assured reliability and for unexpected weather.

   Meet the 6th-generation Waymo Driver: Optimized for costs, designed …

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   Is Waymo fully autonomous?

   • This, Waymo continues, represents “fully autonomous driving technology,” with the Waymo Driver being “fully independent from a human driver.” Using the term “full autonomy” in the context of autonomous vehicles can be tricky.

   What Full Autonomy Means for the Waymo Driver - IEEE Spectrum

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3. waymo.com › waymo-driverSelf-Driving Car Technology for a Reliable Ride - Waymo Driver

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   The Waymo Driver takes the information it gathers in real time, as well as the experience it has built up over its 20+ million miles of real world driving and 20+ billion miles in simulation, and leverages AI to anticipate what other road users might do.

   • Meet the 6th-generation Waymo Driver: Optimized for costs ...

     Redundancies are essential in an autonomous driving system...

   • FAQ - Answers to Questions About Self-Driving Cars - Waymo

     What is the Waymo Driver? At Waymo, we’re focused on...

4. support.google.com › waymo › answerHow our cars drive - Waymo One Help - Google Help

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   Our sensors: 1. Lidar 2. Cameras 3. Radar Here’s a look at each of the sensors that allow the car to safely navigate the complexities of driving while getting people and things where they need to go. Lidar As one of the Waymo Driver's most powerful sensors, lidar paints a 3D picture of its surroundings, allowing us to measure the size and distance ...

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   The Waymo Driver uses all that data to calculate a safe route with the help of AI and machine learning, allowing the car to respond in real time to the evolving traffic environment. In other words, the Waymo Driver is able to capture driving data that is used to continuously improve its performance.

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   Once the Waymo Driver has determined a path to take, our advanced motion control system allows for smooth acceleration and braking in heavy traffic. The Waymo Driver is designed to be cautious and defensive. Learn how we handle uncommoninterruptions to rides likepulling over, collisions, and security events.

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6. waymo.com › faqFAQ - Answers to Questions About Self-Driving Cars - Waymo

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   What is the Waymo Driver? At Waymo, we’re focused on building the Waymo Driver , which is how we refer to our autonomous driving technology. There are two pieces to the Waymo Driver: hardware and software.

7. waymo.com › meet-the-6th-generation-waymo-driverMeet the 6th-generation Waymo Driver: Optimized for costs ...

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   Aug 19, 2024 · Redundancies are essential in an autonomous driving system to provide safe backup functions for assured reliability and for unexpected weather. That's why the Waymo Driver has a surround-view of the world from three complementary sensing modalities.

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9. www.carmagazine.co.uk › autonomous › waymo-googleThe Google Self-Driving Car: All you need to know about Waymo

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   Oct 18, 2022 · What cars and technology does Waymo use? Using a variety of cars, including Lexus SUVs and Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid MPVs, Waymo’s autonomous vehicle technology involves lidar, cameras and other...

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10. spectrum.ieee.org › full-autonomy-waymo-driverWhat Full Autonomy Means for the Waymo Driver - IEEE Spectrum

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    Mar 4, 2021 · The Waymo Driver is designed to automatically detect weather or road conditions that would affect safe driving within our ODD and return to base or come to a safe stop (i.e. achieve a “minimal risk condition”) until conditions improve.

11. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WaymoWaymo - Wikipedia

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    Waymo LLC, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.