Article "Waymo opens driverless robo-taxi service to the public in Phoenix"
by Joseph White
October 8, 2020
by Joseph White
October 8, 2020
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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
The Waymo Driver shares the road with cyclists, pedestrians, and double-parked cars on its first days of rider-only operations in San Francisco.
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.
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