What is the safety of riding the 'Waymo' self-driving car more than 60 times?
This Arizona college student has taken over 60 driverless Waymo rides | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/12/this-arizona-college-student-has-taken-over-60-driverless-waymo-rides/
In October 2020, Waymo launched the self-driving taxi service 'Waymo One' in Phoenix, Arizona. The Waymo One in the trial operation stage was accompanied by a driver for safety, but from October, a 'completely unmanned' service without a driver will be launched.
It was Johnson, a student at Arizona State University, who jumped at this. Johnson, who is also a YouTuber who publishes movies on his YouTube channel,
Ars Technica, who took up the review of the unmanned taxi by Mr. Johnson, said, 'The most impressive thing about the movie in Waymo's self-driving car is that it is boring in a good way. In total, nearly 5 hours. In one driving movie, I never saw Waymo's car making a serious mistake. '
Tesla's fully autonomous driving (FSD) is in contrast to Waymo, which has shown boringly non-hazardous autonomous driving technology. When a reporter from Ars Technica actually took a test drive on a vehicle equipped with the beta version of FSD released in October 2020 for about 3 hours, a total of 12 times, including two cases that were on the verge of collision, were human drivers. It is said that it became necessary to operate the handle by.
In September 2020, the well-known consumer information magazine 'Consumer Reports' published a report that 'Tesla's FSD is just a name and has no value of over 800,000 yen.'
'Tesla's fully automated driving is just a name' evaluated by consumer reports and no value of over 800,000 yen --GIGAZINE
Mr. Johnson, who used Waymo's self-driving car, said about the ride quality, 'Everyone who put on Waymo in private trusted Waymo. The movement of the car is so smooth that everyone can only use a computer. I didn't realize I wasn't there. ' In particular, Waymo's self-driving cars are said to have very smooth acceleration and braking.
On the other hand, Waymo still has the drawback of being too careful and unable to move if there are many pedestrians. If you play the following movie, you can see how Mr. Johnson actually called Waymo's car to the supermarket parking lot.
Waymo Self Driving Car vs Parking Lot Insanity + a Hard Lane Merge | JJRicks Rides With Waymo # 15 --YouTube
Waymo's self-driving taxi has entered the supermarket parking lot. If you look at the driver's seat, you can see that there is no human driver on board.
Mr. Johnson with a camera gets in the back seat.
Supermarket shoppers come and go in front of the car. During that time, the car didn't move for about three and a half minutes.
The car finally started after the traffic of people was interrupted.
Ars Technica said in this regard, 'Waymo is too cautious when there are pedestrians. A human driver will definitely be able to move faster, but it's hard to blame Waymo for this. It's much better to wait for a while than to risk hitting. '
Waymo has conducted a total of 6.1 million miles (about 10 million km) of test runs in Phoenix, causing 18 car-to-car collisions. In a series of test runs have been passenger is the driver of the safety measures, Waymo the 'If a collision accident of a further 29 if there are no driver had occurred' (PDF file) estimates have been.
Regarding the results of this safety investigation, Ars Technica said, 'Of the 47 accidents reported in real life and simulations, one-third were rear-end collisions. Also, a serious need for an airbag. There are only three accidents. In summary, Waymo has few rear-end collisions, no life-threatening collisions in nearly 10 million kilometers of driving, and most of the accidents happened in other cars. It was the driver's responsibility. Given this result, it is understandable that Waymo's automated driving technology is claimed to be safer than the average human driver in most situations. ' Stated.
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