Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars

The Atlantic
Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars

At any time, there are 25000 self-driving cars making their way through Austin, Mountain View, and Phoenix. Except not in the real world, but in a simulation, designed to test fully autonomous cars in thousands of scenarios. Fascinating insights into the race to make human drivers absolete.


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