Latest reports in the foreign media, a week after Alphabet announced the layoffs, its independently operated self-driving technology company, Waymo, also laid off some of its employees.

According to reports from the media, Waymo has not announced the exact number of layoffs, but a spokesperson for the company has confirmed that they laid off some employees that week, involving several of its departments.

In addition, at least 24 employees, disclosed on Collage that they were fired by Waymo, involving positions such as perception, systems and software engineers, fleet maintenance professionals, and systems integration.

However, the foreign media also disclosed in the report that although some employees were laid off, Waymo’s goals for this year will still not be affected, although there is a delay in the plan to adopt the self-driving truck division, and a company spokesperson also confirmed a slight delay in the internal schedule.

The foreign media also mentioned in the report that Waymo One, a self-driving commercial passenger service, will remain their focus in the short term, and this service has previously been approved to operate in Phoenix, Arizona, without a safety driver.

The layoffs at Waymo will not affect the size of the fleet either, as a company spokesperson has revealed that there will be no reduction in either test vehicles or vehicles for commercial services and that their fleet currently has more than 700 vehicles and more than 2,000 employees.

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There was only one Waymo employee in the car, responsible for sitting in the back and recording video.

He said that basically, no one noticed that the car was being driven unmanned. The one or two that did notice were double-checking and couldn’t believe their eyes.

Many netizens were amazed by Waymo’s performance in this video: this is real full self-driving, right?

Many of the “good guys” also ate/cueed Musk.

Some people even put out some videos of Tesla.

" Meanwhile, let's take a look at Tesla's FSD -"

Ah, this ……

Of course, there are also questions.

"When will the average person be able to buy one and how much will it sell for?"

What is the level of this Waymo video?

For the last question at the beginning, the answer is, of course: not for sale.

This is actually still Waymo’s test.

According to official sources, since March this year, Waymo has been on the road in San Francisco for self-driving tests, completely removing the human driver kind.

The passengers (testers) in these cars are all in-house employees, and the people driving the hair videos are Waymo’s software engineers.

They can choose to have Waymo drive them to get a cup of coffee each morning and then drive them to work.

As of today, the test has surpassed 500,000 miles (about 800,000 kilometers, in urban areas).

While removing the human driver from the vehicle in San Francisco is a major milestone for Waymo, it is not the first time the company has deployed a fully self-driving car in the city.

Waymo, the world’s leading self-driving technology company, started in 2009 and became an independent subsidiary of Alphabet from Google.

Prior to that, Waymo put its self-driving system Driver on two other different types of car platforms in 2015 and 2017, respectively, and tested them in Austin and the East Valley of Phoenix, gaining years of experience.

One of these tests in the East Valley of Phoenix opened a fully self-driving taxi pilot service in 2020, taking hundreds of orders per week.

Waymo says it will soon open up testing to the public through the Trusted Tester program.

For this 40-minute fully unmanned takeover video, the most frequently asked questions from the general public are.

Is there a remote takeover control function?

In this regard, the engineer said that Waymo has a remote operation center, that can answer the car

may encounter problems, but can not be directly manipulated.

— Since there are remote interaction centers, some people have said.

"That's not exactly full autonomy. Like FSDbeta, it still requires some human-machine interaction in tricky situations."

However, some people say that is not the biggest problem of fully automated driving is that now Waymo is still running in the electronic fence with a map.

"It would only be if Waymo could be allowed to run a lap outside the electronic fence and without the map being implanted in advance."

In addition, it must be mentioned that a sharp-eyed friend found that the car seemed to have violated the law and occupied the bike lane for about 2 minutes and 12 seconds.

He also ate the municipal parking management account. (Manual dog head)

He also found a stop violation at 3:43 as well.

Finally, he gave an overall rating of:

"The drive/stop was so bad that a FedEx car came up through the left turn only lane specifically to get around it."

So, what do you think of Waymo’s performance this time?

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