There could be Waymo cars in New York City as company applies for testing permit
Google’s Waymo has applied for permits to test its self-driving cars in New York City — what the city’s Department of Transportation calls “some of the most challenging urban street environments for an AV.” Waymo plans to have a human driver operate the vehicle at first while it collects data.
The company has been offering paid autonomous ride-hailing in San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, with plans to launch in Atlanta, Miami, and DC. Tesla is set to launch its own robotaxi service in Austin next week.
“Bottom line, using a combination of reconstruction and generation, Waymo is now able to create high fidelity simulations leading to a substantially more scalable and efficient approach to validation, helping alleviate one of the major bottlenecks in self driving development,” Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak wrote. “During this process, Waymo must test its model against the long tail of edge cases to produce statistically significant evidence that its model has improved.”
Under current law in New York, a person needs to be behind the wheel to operate a vehicle, but Waymo is hoping to “enact regulatory changes that would allow us to bring our service to the city and state in the future.”
Uber and Lyft are trading down on the news, but for some reason Tesla is up.
The company has been offering paid autonomous ride-hailing in San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, with plans to launch in Atlanta, Miami, and DC. Tesla is set to launch its own robotaxi service in Austin next week.
“Bottom line, using a combination of reconstruction and generation, Waymo is now able to create high fidelity simulations leading to a substantially more scalable and efficient approach to validation, helping alleviate one of the major bottlenecks in self driving development,” Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak wrote. “During this process, Waymo must test its model against the long tail of edge cases to produce statistically significant evidence that its model has improved.”
Under current law in New York, a person needs to be behind the wheel to operate a vehicle, but Waymo is hoping to “enact regulatory changes that would allow us to bring our service to the city and state in the future.”
Uber and Lyft are trading down on the news, but for some reason Tesla is up.
