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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Great PR 

Waymo, Google's automated driving company, is generating great PR in its Arizona test bed.  Hundreds are using its driverless taxis in the town of Chandler.  The company still puts a driver in the vehicles, but the drivers keep their hands in their laps and the vans steer themselves from place to place.  The police have said the driverless vehicles have been involved in accidents but not once has it been their fault.  They drive perfectly, so much so that they can be irritants to drivers who take shortcuts at intersections and on the open road.  Waymo's experience is quite different from Tesla whose automated system has been involved in a number of fatal collisions so far.  Waymo is being cautious because it understands the strengths and weaknesses of driverless technologies.  That only adds to its reputation and to the opinion that driverless vehicles have reached maturity.  

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