After more than eight years of development, Waymo is taking the next step toward unlocking the potential of fully self-driving technology: their vehicles — which they consider the safest, most advanced vehicles on the road today — are test-driving on public roads without anyone in the driver’s seat. To date, Waymo vehicles have been operating on public roads with a test driver at the wheel.



We prepared for this next phase by putting our vehicles through the world’s longest and toughest ongoing driving test. Since we began as a Google project in 2009, we’ve driven more than 3.5 million autonomous miles on public roads across 20 U.S. cities. At our private test track, we’ve run more than 20,000 individual scenario tests, practicing rare and unusual cases. We’ve multiplied all this real-world experience in simulation, where our software drives more than 10 million miles every day.

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