How Many Miles Does it Take to Build a Better Driver?

Although Waymo’s test fleet has logged 5 million miles driving in autonomous mode on public roads, it still may be far from what it needs to do.

A 2016 study by RAND Corp determined that demonstrating the reliability of autonomous vehicle technology to handle anything that could happen on public roads, in terms of reducing traffic fatalities and injuries, could require hundreds of millions or even hundreds of billions of test miles.

“They do have a meaningful lead – nobody else comes close to the millions of miles Waymo has driven on roads over the past decade,” said Nidhi Kalra, a San Francisco-based RAND scientist who was the lead author of the 2016 report. “It means they are finding the rarer and trickier situations and learning more and more. There’s just no true substitute for this.”

Read the article at Forbes.

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