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Waymo cars return to NYC

Waymo cars return to NYC, but it still needs permission, law change to provide driverless rides

But it won’t be offering rides to the paying public yet, as it currently does in four other cities. The company announced Wednesday that it has applied for a permit with the New York City Department of Transportation for its vehicles to operate autonomously with a “trained specialist” behind the wheel in Manhattan.

Reuters · 2h

Waymo brings its cars to NYC for testing, applies for autonomous driving permit

Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo said on Wednesday its vehicles will be back in New York City next month for autonomous testing, as it continues to scale operations in the U.S.

NBC New York · 8h

Waymo cars are coming to New York, but with a driver behind the wheel

Residents of New York City will soon start seeing Waymo cars cruising the avenues. But at least for now, a human will be in the driver's seat. Alphabet's self-driving car unit announced on Wednesday that it plans to drive vehicles manually in New York,

3hon MSN

Waymo has set its robotaxi sights on NYC

Waymo said Wednesday it has applied for a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City, the Alphabet company’s ...

Ars Technica4y

Waymo finally launches an actual public, driverless taxi service

Finally, once the company is satisfied with the software's performance, it begins driverless operations. Waymo took more than three years to complete this process for its initial 50-square-mile ...

NBC Bay Area1y

Waymo's driverless cars surpass 7 million miles, but are they safer than human drivers?

“We want people to see the work that we’ve been doing and our performance ... Even Waymo, however, acknowledges it’s difficult to accurately compare its driverless cars to humans, since ...

The Verge1y

Waymo has 7.1 million driverless miles — how does its driving compare to humans?

Waymo’s driverless cars were 6.7 times less likely ... the company produced two scientific papers comparing autonomous vehicle performance to human driving. The first analyzed response times ...

Ars Technica4y

This Arizona college student has taken over 60 driverless Waymo rides

One young Arizonan in particular has leapt at the chance to document the real-world performance of Waymo's driverless taxis. Joel Johnson is an Arizona State University student who is taking a ...

NPR8mon

Why does it feel so weird to ride in a driverless car?

Dan Avedikian's recent ride across San Francisco in a driverless ... accident data." Waymo is trying to strike a tricky balance between the image of seamless machine performance that the company ...

The Verge2y

Waymo’s driverless cars were involved in two crashes and 18 ‘minor contact events’ over 1 million miles

Waymo announced recently that its fully driverless vehicles in California ... peer review and publication comparing autonomous vehicle performance to human driving. There’s no standard approach ...

USA Today1y

Feds are investigating Waymo driverless cars after reports of crashes, traffic violations

Waymo is under investigation by federal safety regulators for reported driverless car crashes and ... “We are proud of our performance and safety record over tens of millions of autonomous ...

NBC Bay Area11mon

Waymo waitlist over in San Francisco; all can hail driverless cars

Waymo driverless cars roam roadways in SF ... “We are proud of our performance,” the statement said. “NHTSA plays a very important role in road safety, and we will continue to work with ...

Engadget6mon

Waymo's driverless cars are apparently an insurance company's dream

Waymo’s fleet of driverless vehicles are operating in ... The results found that Waymo Driver “demonstrated better safety performance when compared to human-driver vehicles.”.

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