Unmanned vehicles Waymo traveled more than 16 billion kilometers... but not on the ground
Source:
Virtually no doubt that sooner or later will become one of the main modes of transport. Many large companies, such as Uber or vengeance are testing their versions of the autopilot. Not far behind them and Waymo, self-driving cars have already driven more than 16 billion kilometers. At first glance it's just a huge number! But as they say, there is a caveat.
How to test
According to representatives of the Waymo, at the moment its a test drones dashed more than 16 billion kilometers in a test virtual environment. What is it? It's a special program to simulate a traffic situation. In it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, modeled a variety of traffic situations. The simulation is able to recreate any environment. From complex accidents to the dense traffic of large cities.
"We've driven ten billion miles in simulation," says CTO Dmitri Dolgov at
— Waymo (@Waymo)
To date, the testing involved more than 25 thousand virtual car Waymo. All the data is going to improve the performance of the algorithms autopilot control.
self-driving cars have already left on the streets
But do not think that Waymo confined to tests in virtual reality. In fact, the company has real results to share. Although they are impressive not so much. during testing on real roads the USA has overcome a total distance of more than 16 million kilometers.
See also:
But if Autonomous cars successfully travel about on real roads, then why test them in a virtual environment? The answer to this question was given by the technical Director Dmitry Dolgov:
"At the moment in the US there are only a few places to test drones. And they are clearly not enough for training neural networks. The number of hours rolled on real and virtual road shows how well our system works. In the real world a lot of different possible situations on the road, all of which are simply impossible to simulate in testing live. When the system collects data from both sources, it becomes ready for any driving situation."
More interesting and unique material you can read on our page in
Recommended
The autopilot feature the Tesla will be available by subscription
very few people surprised by the fact that the company offers to the world something new and breakthrough. First it was electric cars in General. Of course, they existed before, including some of the first self-propelled wagon in history was an elect...
New development, Tesla will make electric cars almost eternal
we All know and love the company of Tesla. Sometimes it saddens us their news, but which often pleases interesting developments, new technologies and outstanding design. As the company is engaged in development and sale of electric vehicles, the main...
10 most expensive production cars in the world
For some, a machine for two million rubles seems to be an accomplishment, but for someone sports car for two million dollars seems to be something not serious and he wants something more. With the first all is clear. It's a big part of the world's po...
Related News
In Russia showed the first unmanned tractor
a Russian Corporation "Roscosmos", which controls all space projects of our country, presented its first tractor without driver's cabin. It is simply not needed, because the machine is able to build their own routes, avoid obstacl...
How to turn a car into a truck? Easy!
What if you were told that your car can easily be turned into a powerful truck or an easy Golf cart? How would you imagine it introduced? Surely you would assume that something like a transformer, which replaces the wheels and reb...
Replacement wheels for the Tesla Model 3 will cost you...
Electric cars Tesla — very expensive pleasure. For example, for the right to own the base version of the Tesla purchaser in the US will have to pay out of pocket at least $ 35,000 (more than 2.2 million rubles on the current...
The fastest car in the world ready to set a new record
In 2015, the British company Bloodhound SSC , which is able to accelerate to 1287 kilometers per hour. Unfortunately, after the presentation of the superfast cars, the company abruptly ran out of money and she demonstrated her abi...
#video | How Tesla cars helping to catch criminals?
In recent years, car thieves have started a real hunt for electric cars Tesla — leaving the machine unattended, the owners can stay without it for a few minutes. To somehow scare away criminals, recently Elon Musk has equipped the...
Toyota covered with solar panels and charging on the go
Almost every car manufacturer produces models with electric engines, but few risks to equip them for the constant recharging of the battery. One of the rare brave souls in this field was the company , some prototypes of their cars...
The envy of Tesla: new electric SUV for extreme races in 2021
the annual "Festival of speed" in Goodwin (England) company Spark Racing Technology has unveiled a new electric SUV Odyssey21. The novelty is developed specially to participate in future extreme races Extreme E, in analogy with th...
Tesla hits record. They buy more than Chrysler, Land Rover, Volvo and many others
Although not the most successful beginning of the year, and also forecasts of analysts, the American electric car manufacturer Tesla was able to surpass all expectations. Not even his own. The company Elon musk reported last sales...
China unveiled its first hydrogen car with a record power reserve
Gasoline cars harm the environment, and the electric — charged for too long, so some car manufacturers are looking for salvation in the hydrogen engines. They are already involved in some Honda and Hyundai, but the Chinese compani...
India can be called a world leader in the use of two-wheeled transport — while in other countries people mostly drive cars, the city in South Asia are crowded with scooters and motorcycles. The authorities are aware that far behin...
Air taxi Voom, owned by Airbus, will compete with Uber Copter
the air taxi Market in the US is heating up: the giant of the aviation industry, Airbus will be among the companies, which in 2019 will provide services for air transportation on American sky helicopters, says FastCompany. Since t...
I Alaka'builds a flying car on hydrogen, because they do not believe in batteries
Hydrogen fuel cells have great difficulty moving as the energy source for ground vehicles, but many are beginning to look for alternative ways to driving without emissions. A new start-up air taxi, Alaka'i Technologies this week u...
The Norwegian capital will install wireless charging stations for taxi
the Appetite of Norway the electric cars are rising every year. For example, according to the latest data, 40 percent of all car sales in the country last year was accounted for by electric vehicles. So it is not surprising the ne...
#video | Project of a flying motorcycle Lazareth real — he raised up on metre height
French company Lazareth is known for its fancy motorcycles, which with its stylish, bold and even aggressive appearance demonstrate proper enormous power. At the end of 2018, she introduced flying at the time seemed futuristic exh...
New image pickup Tesla was puzzled by designers
Recently, the company Tesla has finally unveiled its long-awaited electric . It turned out that in one of the demo videos the company has hidden "Easter eggs" in the form of a teaser of the future of the future of the pickup truck...
The main competitor of Tesla decided not to build a plant in the United States
In 2015, the company Faraday Future, which has long been considered the main competitor to the Elon musk, had planned to invest in construction of a plant in the United States more than a billion dollars — this company bough...
Electric crossover Tesla Model officially presented to Y
As promised, Elon Musk, at a special event in the design Studio of the American brand in Los Angeles, Tesla unveils new car – compact electric crossover Model Y. the Novelty is built on the same platform as the "budget" sedan Mode...
Hypercar 800 horses solves the problems of electric cars, but hazardous nature
Electric cars are already well established as vehicles for daily driving in the city. However, they are unsuitable for long trips due to limited battery power, so some producers have to find ways to charge them directly during mov...
Waymo is more expensive Tesla and Uber. Guess why?
the Division of the Alphabet, which is self — governing transport- Waymo — can attract capital from the outside for the first time. In this case, the value of the company will be "several times larger" Cruise, similar to the branc...
Tesla decided to close all retail stores, but it will have to pay the buyers
In early March, the company Tesla has announced their cars by 6%. She was going to do it, covering most retail stores and going to online sales. For two weeks, the company assessed each of their point and decided that some of them...
Comments (0)
This article has no comment, be the first!