Commerical self-driving cars are no longer a fantasy. Tens of thousands of paying customers are trusting them for rides on congested city streets.
Waymo has been testing self-driving cars with 400 riders in Phoenix, USA for a year. The company is expected to launch a paid self-driving car service to the public in Phoenix before the end of the year.
Inside the city, the self-driving vehicles can log thousands of miles in a controlled setting, where cars driven by people are staged to quickly cut off a self-driving car in order to test the robot’s rate of deceleration.
Google's Waymo has patented a technology that will make its self-driving cars soft on the outside if it comes across a situation where there is a possibility of an accident with a human.
