text: Original by Dongchedi Chang Siyue
[Original by Dongchedi Industry] Recently, according to foreign media techcrunch, Waymo, an autonomous driving company under Google , announced that its fleet of autonomous taxis located in the center of Phoenix, USA is constantly expanding and has decided to withdraw its human safety officers.
Waymo driverless taxi
This also means that Waymo's driverless taxi will use completely unmanned driving on the most prosperous roads in Phoenix City .
In fact, as early as 2020, Waymo announced that it would provide fully driverless ride-hailing services in the Metropolitan Phoenix, USA, with an area of about 50 square miles.
Waymo fully driverless car
Not all vehicles would have been directly in fully driverless mode at the time. Waymo CEO John Krafcik explained that the Phoenix area would run various modes, some of which would be completely driverless (no safety officers), while others would still be equipped with trained safety operators in the car.
Waymo Self-driving Taxi
According to a Waymo spokesperson, the driverless business in the city center of Phoenix will start in the northeast of the region and gradually expand to all test areas Waymo trusts, including the city center of Phoenix, including the city center, Midtown and the central and southern parts.
Currently, unmanned taxis have begun demonstration operations in China. On April 28, Beijing issued a notice on unmanned manned demonstration application, which showed that Baidu became the first approved enterprise, and its autonomous driving travel service platform Luobo Kuaishang officially launched unmanned autonomous driving travel services.
This news means that China's driverless taxis have entered the era of driverless behind the steering wheel.
Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li speaks out
However, a screenshot of Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li’s circle of friends was exposed. Robin Li said: "There will definitely be accidents when driving unmanned driving, or even deaths, but this probability is much lower than that when driving in a human."
The application of driverless taxis on the C-end has gradually been implemented, but imagine this scenario: When you call a car through a taxi software, there is no one in the car, do you dare to get on the car?
