![]() Any driver knows that narrow streets, unusual road geometries, frequent occlusions, intricate intersections, constantly evolving layouts, and close social interactions with cities’ many drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and other road users, can make navigating dense urban environments a challenge. All this can be particularly complicated in cities. ![]() As the Waymo Driver navigates dozens of vehicles and pedestrians, it’s met with a huge variety of other road users-from double-parked vehicles whose riders can hop out at any second, to scooters cutting across traffic even when they have a red light.Īny fully autonomous driving system needs to know where it is and where it’s going, see what’s happening around it, understand the intentions and predict the movement of other road users, plan what to do, and drive the vehicle safely. It’s the kind of journey we’ve made tens of thousands of times since we first started driving autonomously in the city in 2009. Here’s our autonomous driving system-the Waymo Driver-in San Francisco earlier this year.
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