Opportunity belongs to truly unmanned driving.
The virus not only attacks humans, but also suffers the same crisis.
A few days ago, U.S. self-driving companies Waymo, Cruise and Argo all pressed the self-driving car test pause button containing a safe driver. Among them, Waymo not only suspended the company’s related technical testing in California, but also provided driverless Waymo one trial operation services in Arizona for local residents and volunteers.
For safety reasons, the regulatory authorities require unmanned drivers to have a professionally trained driver in the car during the test to meet the need. Earlier, Google-owned Waymo had just received U.S. regulatory approval to allow unmanned driving in California at a speed of 65 mph without a safe driver.
While the first services will only be open to internal employees, the opening is still revolutionary given California’s complex road conditions and congested traffic. Because with a safe driver for testing, Waymo has had dozens of accidents in California road tests.
And Cruise is the number one chip for General Motors to deploy in the driverless field. In 2017, Cruise began to test the third generation of driverless cars on the road in San Francisco’s main city. At the same time, it tested the autonomous driving service, Cruise Anywhere, within its employees and put it into commercial operation.
It is reported that a total of 65 companies have permission to conduct unmanned road tests with safe drivers in California. In the autonomous driving report released by the California DMV last year, Waymo and Cruise led the total mileage of the test, which is also an important indicator of the maturity of the driverless technology. In the annual ranking of autonomous driving technology development released by Navigant Research on March 16, Waymo and Cruise also occupied the top two spots in the ranking respectively-but the remaining one does not belong to the star car companies. Tesla.
The 24 companies on the list, the latter ranked at the bottom.
At present, Tesla’s green light has also been turned off. Just yesterday, the San Francisco Bay Area formally implemented a travel ban, requiring residents of the six counties in its territory to stay at home for as long as possible for three weeks. All industries except the public health services and public security systems, such as necessary public services, will be closed. Musk had tried to ignore it, maintain the normal operation of its Fremont plant, and was close to getting a government “amnesty”. However, this move has been rejected by the local security department.
Tesla Fremont also has to observe rules, government officials said, “Tesla is not a basic business as defined in the Alameda County Sanitation Order.”
For safety reasons, the regulatory authorities have been unable to release the restrictions on the real “unmanned road test” of unmanned driving, and the “unmanned” of “unmanned driving” is not only In the face of the intensifying US epidemic, driverless vehicles have to be blocked, and it has also been difficult for companies to achieve commercial restraints.
At present, whether it is Waymo, Cruise or Tesla, they are accelerating towards the real “unmanned driving”. The epidemic also cannot reverse this direction-It is reported that Waymo has retained its normal operations in Phoenix, some of the “true driverless services”, which are part of Waymo’s early passenger program and driverless truck transportation. No human driver cooperation is required.
“We provide driverless, delivery and truck services to passengers and partners while maintaining social distance and adherence to hygienic guidelines. The prospect of driverless is not only to make our roads safer, Help our passengers stay healthy during uncertain times, “Waymo said. “