The Alphabet-owned company Waymo was formerly operated by
Google. It has recently announced in a Tweet on Wednesday that it is bringing
its autonomous trucks back to
Arizona.
It can be said that the state’s roads is one of the firm’s
favourite locations for testing its vehicles. Towards the end of 2019, it chose
Phoenix for the trial launch of its first ridesharing
service called Waymo One. This facility used its autonomous Chrysler
Pacifica hybrid minivans. The company has been developing autonomous cars for
the last ten years. Its interest in self-driving trucks is a recent
development. These vehicles will be on the roads of Grand Canyon State before
the end of the week. Rather than heading into cities where turns might be
difficult for trucks to handle, they will stay on the freeways.
When it launched its Atlanta trial in 2018, Waymo
announced, “Our software is learning to drive big rigs in much the same way a
human driver would after years of driving passenger cars”. The principle of
these autonomous
trucks are similar as the one for cars except that the custom-built
sensors and complex software need to be adapted to suit the size and weight of
the larger vehicles to ensure a safe and smooth ride.
Waymo is testing autonomous trucks in Arizona
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