Autonomous driving, Waymo LLC, Mountain View, California, USA

Article "Waymo is dropping the term ‘self-driving,’ but not everyone in the industry is on board"

by Kirsten Korosec
January 7, 2021

Article "Waymo won't talk about 'self-driving' cars anymore, in apparent dig at Tesla"
Waymo takes a stab at Tesla over its use of the term "self-driving" in its new Full Self Driving feature.

by Liam Tung
January 7, 2021

"Waymo: Why you’ll hear us saying fully autonomous driving tech from now on"
Last year was a big one for us - we raised our first external investment round, we rolled out the 5th generation of our Waymo Driver and we opened Waymo One to the public, among other milestones

January 6, 2021
 

Waymo self driving taxi fumbles in construction zone, blocks traffic | JJRicks rides with Waymo #54

Premiered May 13, 2021

Want to view and search every timestamped event from my videos, all in one place? Check out the Videos page on my new website https://jjricks.com

A special thank you to Danny Harmon from @Distant Signal for the voiceover segment. Check him out if you need voice work done!

00:00 Ride start/parking lot
01:10 Unprotected right
02:40 Unprotected left
03:20 Right lane change
04:24 Unprotected right
05:56 Right turn detour
06:34 Four way stop
07:33 Unprotected left
09:05 Right lane change
09:47 Fatal mistake
10:11 Unprotected left
11:01 Important explanation, please watch
11:32 Waymo's official statement
12:22 Beginning of car getting stuck
13:22 Roadside assistance called
13:32 Rider support call
16:47 Car makes the turn, but gets stuck again and starts blocking the road
20:05 Roadside assistance makes an appearance
20:08 Asking the real questions (is roadside assistance always following me?)
20:53 Car reverses from stuck spot, but gets stuck again and blocks the entire lane
21:29 Roadside assistance called again
21:39 Construction folks take the cone away
23:01 Construction guy directing traffic
23:23 Talking to construction guy
23:46 Car runs away from roadside assistance
24:35 Car gets stuck again
25:21 Roadside assistance called again
25:50 Roadside assistance finally arrives
26:25 Car runs away again
27:39 Doors unlocked, car finally stopped for good
28:24 App screenshot
28:50 Roadside assistance team member boards the vehicle
29:14 Disengagement
30:51 Trip continues in manual
32:01 Sorry roadside assistance guy!
32:51 Asking the real questions again (is roadside assistance always following me?)
33:45 Oh joy, now announcements cover up *even more* of the screen
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"A driverless Waymo got stuck in traffic and then tried to run away from its support crew"
A rare unedited look at an autonomous vehicle in distress

by Andrew J. Hawkins
May 14, 2021
 

Our first days of fully autonomous driving in San Francisco

Mar 31, 2022

The Waymo Driver shares the road with cyclists, pedestrians, and double-parked cars on its first days of rider-only operations in San Francisco.
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Sense, solve, and go: the magic of the Waymo driver

Aug 1, 2022

How have we built our autonomous driving technology to navigate the world safely? It comes down to three easy steps: Sense, Solve, and Go. Using a combination of lidar, camera, radar, and compute, the Waymo Driver can visualize the world, calculate what others may do, and proceed smoothly and safely, day and night.
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Waymo’s approach to building a safe Waymo Driver

Jul 27, 2023

With a record of nearly 43,000 deaths and 2.5 million injuries in the U.S. alone in 2021, we believe autonomous driving technology has the potential to save lives and improve mobility options for millions of people.

The data to-date indicates that the Waymo Driver is reducing traffic injuries and fatalities in the places where we operate, and we aim to continue safely designing and deploying our Driver to help more people in more places.

Watch to learn more about Waymo’s approach to building a safe Waymo Driver for the communities in which we operate, then visit our site to explore our safety publications on our methodologies, performance data, and more: https://waymo.com/safety/

Chapters:
0:00 Safety drives us (so we can drive you)
0:45 Revealing the Layers of safety
2:06 Evaluating the safety lifecycle
2:50 Setting safety standards
3:24 Mapping out the future
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