Google and Fiat/Chrysler Begin to Offer Self Driving Car Rides to the Public in Phoenix, AZ

[Steel]

[quote]Fiat Chrysler and Google for the first time will offer rides to the public in the self-driving automobiles they are building under an expanding partnership.

The companies announced in the spring of last year that they would build 100 self-driving Chrysler Pacifica hybrids minivans. Those vehicles have been tested in Arizona, California and Michigan.

Waymo, Google's self-driving car project, said Tuesday that it will allow hundreds of people in Phoenix to take rides in the vehicles so that it can get feedback on the experience. People can apply on Waymo's website.

The company also said that it's expanding its fleet to 500 Pacifica hybrids.

Waymo — created by Google in 2009 — has given rides to the public before in its hometown of Mountain View, California. In 2015, it let a blind man ride around Austin, Texas, in one of its completely self-driving pods. The Phoenix program will be much larger in scale, and it will be the first to use the Pacifica minivans.

Others in the race to develop self-driving vehicles have been putting people in their cars since last fall. Uber has had self-driving Volvos on the road in Pittsburgh for some time. Boston startup nuTonomy is giving taxi rides to passengers in Singapore and Boston. In all cases, there is a backup driver behind the wheel.

Waymo said it wants to learn where people want to go in a self-driving vehicle, how they communicate with it and what kinds of information and controls they want.

Fiat Chrysler builds the Pacifica minivan in Windsor, Canada, just across the border from Detroit. It adds Waymo's self-driving software and hardware, including sensors and cameras, at a facility in Michigan. Fiat Chrysler's U.S. headquarters is in Auburn Hills, Michigan.[/quote]
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[helifreak]

:snip: SH isn't sponsored spambots herp derp.

[😹 WHO DID THIS]

And then it gets hacked because FCA has shit security.

[Rocâ„¢]

[QUOTE=GhillieBacca;52148483]And then it gets hacked because FCA has shit security.[/QUOTE]

you can't hack what was already broken in the first place

[kylel999]

I wouldn't buy a Fiat if it served me champagne and sucked my cock every time I got in it.
They lead the list for most unreliable cars in the US 2014-2017 by a 50% margin over the runner up (RAM I believe)

[editline]25th April 2017[/editline]

In fact, every GM/Chrysler make is way below average for reliability on that list and IMO Chrysler is as bad as Fiat with electrical issues and everything else

[Propane Addict]

So wait, who is expected to fixed the car when it breaks down if there is no driver?

[Firgof Umbra]

[QUOTE=Propane Addict;52148682]So wait, who is expected to fixed the car when it breaks down if there is no driver?[/QUOTE]

The owner of the car. (read: not the passenger)

[Kalimando]

Phoenix is the perfect place to test it since you can drive 150 miles on the same street.

[srobins]

[QUOTE=bigbadbarron;52151664]Phoenix is the perfect place to test it since you can drive 150 miles on the same street.[/QUOTE]

Never considered it but this is honestly probably the reason that there's so much self-driving research going on here. Phoenix is basically a perfect square grid throughout the entire valley, pretty convenient and simple place to get your feet wet with self-driving cars.