- Published on August 31, 2021
- In AI Features
All About Waymo’s AI-Powered Urban Driver
This information is later mixed with real-time details to gauge how the road users might behave and drive accordingly.
- By Avi Gopani
While Phoenix travel guides may not mention this, taking a ride in Waymo's self-driving car should be at the forefront of that list. Travel the city via a fully autonomous vehicle you can book simply with an app on your phone.
Waymo, Google's platform for driverless vehicles, provides fully autonomous cars seven days a week all around Phoenix. Dubbed 'the World's Most Experienced Driver' by Alphabet AI, Waymo has driven over 20 billion miles so far, with the sole mission to make travelling easier and safer. In 2020, Alphabet expanded the tech to commercial trucks.
Waymo calls itself a self-driving technology company rather than a self-driving car company. Their fleet of thousands of self-driving cars is powered with sensors like lidar, enabling driver-free operations and 360-de
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Avi Gopani
Avi Gopani is a technology journalist that seeks to analyse industry trends and developments from an interdisciplinary perspective at Analytics India Magazine. Her articles chronicle cultural, political and social stories that are curated with a focus on the evolving technologies of artificial intelligence and data analytics.
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