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For eight years, Waymo, the company of Alphabet (parent of Google), has become a leader in driverless technology.
Recently, The us media science and technology, The Information research of The current main development level L4 and above 17 self-driving technology company, from a technical, engineering, business model, three aspects are tested, finally it is concluded that comprehensive ranking: Google's Waymo won The first place, with drops of baidu China respectively seventh, 17.
The us media BI also believes that Alphabet's cash flow is abundant and that it has long been heavily focused on driverless technology. At the same time, Alphabet does not have to rush to make commercial vehicles today. It can directly lay out the L4 and L5 unmanned technology, which is currently in the leading position in the field of driverless cars.
As early as 2009, the Google X lab officially launched the Google drone program, and for a long time, it was only one player in the field. Today, Waymo has more than 3 million miles of actual road miles and more than a billion miles of simulated tests, taking away any company in the industry.
In December, Alphabet spun Waymo, a driverless unit, from Google X into a separate entity. This suggests that Waymo is becoming viable as an independent business, not just a research project, the media said. Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak says Waymo is valued at $70 billion.
Internet giants, traditional car makers and taxi-hailing companies are all in the process of laying out driverless technology. The
According to Information, Waymo and tesla have the most technical strength. Uber and Delphi have the best business model. Taken together, the top five companies are Waymo, Uber, Daimler, Delphi, and tesla.
Two important achievements
Over the past two years, Waymo has developed an important achievement in the field of driverless cars:
Waymo, in October 2015, completed the first time in the true sense of the world's self-driving trip, a blind passengers sitting without manual intervention control and safety driver "fireflies", driving safely Austin blocks. The industry sees this as a milestone in the way driverless technology is moving towards applications. "
The firefly has no steering wheel or pedals and is a real L5 driverless car.
2, 2016, Waymo driverless cars travel 1000 miles to the number of human intervention dropped to 0.2 times, the results significantly ahead of competitors, by contrast, 2015 nissan's self-driving car every 1000 miles need human intervention, 71 times.
More cost-effective sensor systems
One of Waymo's latest advances in driverless cars this year has been to develop a more cost-effective sensor system. Previously, the Waymo had only one medium distance that was placed on the top of the car
LiDAR) LiDAR, now, the new sensor system includes three laser radar (LiDAR) covering short, medium and long distance, eight visual modules, and radars.
And the cost of new LiDAR is greatly reduced, Waymo chief executive John Krafcik said earlier this year, "after purchasing a laser radar cost more than $75000, today we fell more than 90%. The cost"
He also said that the sensor data, and the "brain" driverless cars, a new artificial intelligence computing platform, the platform will process the data and make the media BI think that Alphabet lead in the field of artificial intelligence will benefit the Waymo, this resource is other competitors do not.
Strengthen the accumulation of measured data
This year, in addition to the hardware upgrade, Waymo to further strengthen the accumulation in the measured data, which includes two aspects: Lyft cooperation with a taxi company, and the phoenix area in the United States invited residents test self-driving car service.
In may, Waymo reached a cooperation agreement with Lyft, North America's second-largest ride-hailing app, on driverless technology. Lyft can fill in the gaps in Waymo - customers use data, Lyft helps it better debug autonomous driving systems by opening data to Waymo, analysts say.
In addition, Waymo invited residents to test its driverless car service in phoenix, USA, in June. Waymo will provide 600 Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid microcars for hundreds of testers in phoenix area.
Waymo CEO Krafcik said, "have to say that our business model has yet to be determined, we are the most important tasks at hand is to learn more about how people will use this technology", "this is our first real passengers sit on our driverless cars to interact, is a very big step for us."
The brain drain
Still, Alphabet's self-driving research has not been smooth, and the brain drain has been a major problem for the company.
Sebastian Thrun, the founder of Alphabet's driverless project, announced his departure in 2014, and then started Udacity, a education start-up.
In August 2016, Sebastian Thrun's successor, the head of Alphabet's driverless car project, and CTO Chris Urmson, announced his departure, causing a stir. He is charismatic in the field of driverless cars, and the industry's criticism of his departure is a huge loss to the company.