Waymo to Deploy Thousands of Completely Driverless Cars to Atlanta, Phoenix by End of Year

[Harbie]

[QUOTE]
It’s 2018, and Waymo is doing it live. Two months after the Alphabet self-driving car spinoff announced it would start running a truly driver-free service in Phoenix this year (as in, cars romping about with no one at the wheel), the company now unveils how it will do it: with the help of thousands more Chrysler Pacifica hybrids. The vehicles, built by Fiat Chrysler in Canada, will eventually make their way to the cities where Waymo is currently testing driverless tech. Waymo already uses 600 of the minivans to test its driverless software.

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Takeaway number two: [B]You may come in contact with these cars sooner than you think, especially if you live in one of the 25 cities where Waymo is currently testing the tech. [/B]The company announced just last week it will bring its testing apparatus to metro Atlanta, making Georgia the first southeastern state to have self-driving test cars its midst. (In May 2017, the Peach State passed a bill allowing robocars with proper insurance and registration on public roads.[/QUOTE]

Source: [url]https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-launches-self-driving-minivans-fiat-chrysler/[/url]

[Anteep]

there be way mo driverless cars seen on the roads by end of the year

[PivotalSpark]

Will all cars be compatible with this technology? Or just the newer ones?