Slow but sustainable development of driverless vehicles

Mike Johns, in December, Arizona, Arizona, Arizona’s return from Los Angeles did not wait.

He ordered a driverless taxi to reach the airport and excited when he jumped when he was thrown with interested fathers.

However, he paid more attention than his deal.

Mr. Johns, although the same specter seems, found that he was driven around and around a car park.

Waymo Ride, there was no way to do it and did not have a clear way, Mr. Johns could not fix it – and there was a flight to catch.

Mr. Johns experimented almost immediately in the virus and wrote a video of how ready for self-driving cars and real world passengers.

“Why does this happen for me on Monday morning?” Mr. Johns asked himself.

Finally, a voice inside the car explains the access to the Waymo application to control the vehicle.

Waymo belonging to the alphabet, a native of Google, said that the BBC is almost immediately solved the problem.

The company is better than people in preventing the driverless system “injuries, airbags and accidents that result in police reports.”

Nevertheless, Mr. John’s experience should not take action for the first time.

Last year, the company reminded more than 600 cars after hitting a street pole.

And the National Highway Safety Department in May 2024 (NHTSA) launched a probe to 22 events related to road vehicles.

The road to a driverless future was awarded for rival services.

US car giant general engines in December tied himself managing Car derivative company Cruise.

GM refers to the change of strategy “for a long time and resources needed for the scale of the work.”

In October 2023, one of the vehicles was pedestrian and dragged him out of 20 feet (more than 6 m) and left the serious injured.

Meanwhile, in February last year, Apple appeared to be the rumor of Shayi The car project was folded.

Uber left her own Driverless car effort in 2020.

However, some great players, Amazon, as well as the NVIDIA and Elon Musk’s Tesla and Elon Musk Tesla are also in the race.

Waymo, although the US player. There are already self-driving taxis that promise to start starting in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas and Texas and Miami, Florida.

So why did the Waymo fail at least in the US?

“Three things – people, money and process” says Sven Beiker, a teacher and silicone valley mobility, a car consultant management director in the Stanford graduate.

Over the years, he hired some of the leading figures in the Waymo Autonomous Makhtar, and behind it, the Google owner has material weight and the approach was thoroughly.

“Playing beside the book, they come around to be a good process … are safe to make sure they work with regulators.”

So what’s next?

Regions with good weather, Philip Kampshoff, Philip Kampshoff, McKinsey in McKinsey is the leader of Philipp Kampshoff, the global leader of car and installation experience, he said.

This will cover South US southern languages ​​such as Texas and Florida, where Waymo has already plans.

“Robo-taxis are still working better in good weather. They are still fighting in a heavy snow,” they say.

It is also better performed for Driverless cars that need a lot of energy for many energy in the plaque calculation for driving cars for drilling cars.

“By bringing it all together, you will see a city after the expansion of the other in the second part of the 2020s,” he said.

There will be a slow process.

“It is a labor intensive process to carry this technology that includes the fair amount of this technology,” Mr. Beiker said.

“You need to drive on the streets you want to place these vehicles and you need to drive them again and to some extent, you need to edit the information.”

The whole process can also be held with security concerns.

“If this is just a big crash, many of these transactions will be closed, if the moment there is great accidents,” Mr. Kampshoff.

Safety for those who work on self-driving machines are undoubtedly even greater concern.

“Security, the number one worries we work,” David Liu, Plus CEO David Liu, which works with global companies such as Amazon, Hyundai, Volkswagen and Scania.

“Autonomous trucks and autonomous vehicles must be more reliable than the medium-managed vehicle,” Mr Liu.

“Human drivers are great, but not perfect. Most of our angry is due to ourselves, the remarks of the driver. There is no matter with technology,” Mr. Liu explains.

“A robo-taxi, mostly in the cities in low-speed environments, trucks continue highly at higher speed.

“So you need to see the trucks clearer around and put a different set of technology to be able to manage the longer brake distance, for example.”

To see the future of the driver, it may be worth following developments in China.

In Wuhan, more than 500 drivers are managed by Baidu.

It is reported that the driver of the car works in 16 cities and tested by 19 producers.

“There’s definitely more competition … There are four or five companies that are very similar to Waymo,” he said.

Back in Scottsdale, Mr. Johns reflects the spread of the experience and autonomous vehicles.

“One big thing is that we are all part of a paid experiment. Whatever they do at the end of the day, the city, this is a problem.”