Another car stopped behind the Waymo. Then, according to Waymo, a human-driven SUV rear-ended the other vehicles at high speed, causing a six-car pileup that killed one person and injured five others.

followed by autonomous testing with a human safety operator, driverless testing, and eventually commercial operations. Waymo has to provide specific data after each mapping session per vehicle ...

They also occasionally “park briefly” between trips if they’re too far from a Waymo facility. They’re the same trade-offs human drivers make all the time, and until we’re out of the ...

It requires that a human driver control the mapping vehicles, and that Waymo only run two vehicles at a time on the property. “No decision has been made on passenger operations,” the release ...

The agreement allows for two Waymo vehicles to conduct mapping operations with a human driver in control of the vehicles at all times and no passengers. The agreement began on March 14 and is ...

Beginning Tuesday, rideshare hailers on Uber in Austin, Texas, can call a driverless Waymo, from Google’s ... drivers have access to 24/7 human support on the Uber app. As a passenger is ...