There is a high school girl who is riding in Waymo's automatic driving car, but only one in the world

Under the affiliate of Alphabet, Waymo , Google's brother company, is about to begin a paid tax-free service in the United States at a later date by the end of 2018. As of the beginning of August 2018, on-site testing has been carried out with volunteer monitoring staff appointed, including only one teenager girls high school girls.

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Kaira Jackson living in Phoenix, Arizona is the only girls high school student who volunteers to participate in the pilot operation program "Early Rider" of the automatic driving car which Waymo is carrying out. Every morning, Kaira calls Waymo's automatic driving car to his home with a smartphone application and goes to school by Chrysler's minivan "Pacifica" who came to his house.

When Pacifica who does not have anyone stops in front of home, Kaiira opens the door of the rear seat, sits on the seat and attaches the seat belt. Then, when you push the blue button of the device attached overhead, Pacifica will start running along the road to high school where Kaira goes.

The Jackson family who has Mr. Kaira is a family selected for Waymo's pilot program. Until we joined the program, it was a Jackson family who used daily private cars like ordinary households, but since it became available Waymo almost never stopped driving a car by myself about. It seems that the range that you can move with Waymo is set to 10 miles square (about 16 km square), but whenever you go shopping, go to the movies, go to the train, or take a train Waymo It is said that you are using.

According to Mr. Kamira's mother Samantha, Mr. Kaira in Waymo seems to be like a celebrity riding a limousine with a driver. Regarding the passing ritual of "getting a driver's license" that anyone can pass if he / she is 17 years old, Mr. Kaira seems to be showing no interest at all "Is that so important?

Participants in the pilot program can use Waymo for free, but it seems that dummy usage fees are being displayed on in-car display due to commercial service approaching. For example, when it is a road from Mr. Kaira's home to high school, it was $ 5 (about 550 yen), and when using 11.3 miles (about 18 km) longer than that it was displayed as $ 19.15 (about 2150 yen) about. This is said to be a cheaper setting than a normal taxi in a charge zone that is almost the same as a dispatch service like Uber or Lyft.

Waymo's pilot program implemented at Phoenix said that the most advanced content among 25 cities that the company is undertaking is being introduced. Waymo has carried out running experiments of 8 million miles (about 13 million km), including the Google era, and for the first time in Phoenix "Autonomous operation without backup driver" is being implemented. Waymo's CEO John Classics said, "We just finally started," and it is likely that the final development will be promoted for actual commercial operations in the future.

Mr. Classic says that the goal is to establish a "driver" that integrates the software and hardware of the vehicle. One of the important indicators in an automatic driving car is the travel distance until human intervention by the backup driver is required. The following graph shows the results of each company developing an automatic driving car, but Waymo has been able to run about 5000 miles (about 8000 km) without human intervention, and with the other companies We are pouring a lot of water between.

As of the end of July 2018, Waymo said that we are advancing research in the following four areas.

1: Ride-sharing business (unattended taxi): Chrysler · Pacifica of 62,000 units and 20,000 EV, Jaguar · I-Pace will be introduced within the next few years
2: TRUCK TRANSPORTATION: Policy to implement unmanned truck transport by mounting a device for autonomous operation on a large trailer
3: Private car: Waymo is undertaking initiatives to realize private car that can autonomously operate in collaboration with Fiat · Chrysler
4: Public transport: Waymo plans to partner with Phoenix's public transport service company Valley Metro to incorporate automatic driving cars into the system