Waymo’s mission is to bring autonomous driving technology to the world, making it safe and easy for people and things to get where they are going. We’re building the World’s Most Experienced DriverTM and we believe our technology can improve access to mobility, and save thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.

Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars

The Atlantic The Atlantic•August 23, 2017

翻译、编辑 | 李秀琴 张伟

新智驾按：谷歌是自动驾驶研究领域的“老大哥”，能被冠以这样的名号，必然是有足够的实力来做支撑。过去的“谷歌无人车”，现在的“Waymo”，十数年历程，一步步走来，除了那些被媒体广泛报道的明面信息，还有什么让 Waymo 的自动驾驶走在全球领先的位置。

外媒《大西洋月刊》发表长文：Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars，解密了 Waymo 自动驾驶的两大重磅武器：自动驾驶模拟系统 Carcraft 以及测试基地 Castle。

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让我们跟随作者 Alexis C. Madrigal 的脚步，去了解Carcraft，探营Castle，一步步揭晓全球最先进自动驾驶的成长秘辛。本文由新智驾编译。

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首款真正的无人驾驶车开上了美国凤凰城的街道。它来自源自谷歌的Waymo，是第一辆无需有人坐在方向盘前应对突发状况的车。

On the Road to Fully Self-driving

Waymo Safety Report

Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—stands for a new way forward in mobility. In 2015, we invited Steve Mahan, former CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center, for a special ride. Steve had ridden in our cars in the past—first accompanied by a test driver in 2012 and then on a closed course in 2014. This time was different. Steve experienced the world’s first fully self-driving ride on public roads, navigating through everyday traffic with no steering wheel, no pedals, and no test driver.

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We've been working on self-driving vehicles since 2009, and we are now an independent self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things move around. Learn more about Waymo:

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The eminently-quotable computer scientist Alan Kay once said, “people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” Waymo has taken this message to heart, and we've built our own custom suite, designed specially for fully autonomous driving. At AutoMobili-D 2017, Waymo CEO John Krafcik takes a peek under the hood of the new self-driving Pacifica minivan, equipped with our all new sensor suite. John explains how bringing our hardware development in-house has helped us develop the most advanced self-driving system to date.

谷歌母公司 Alphabet 今天在洛杉矶召开了发布会，宣布谷歌无人驾驶项目将作为公司内部一个名为「Waymo」的独立个体存在。此前，该项目隶属于谷歌旗下秘密研究部门 Google X 实验室。

「Waymo」所代表的意思是：「A new way forward in mobility」（未来新的机动方式）。Waymo 是谷歌母公司 Alphabet 旗下第 12 个业务部门，其中包括谷歌、家庭自动化公司 Nest、风险基金 GV 和 CapitalG 等等，每个业务部门都有自己的 CEO。

发布会上， Waymo 的 CEO John Krafcik 宣布，「现在，我们已经是 Alphabet 旗下一家独立的公司。」国外 The Information、彭博社、The Verge 等多家媒体指出，谷歌开始将无人驾驶相关技术带向商业市场。

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当然，这并不意味着谷歌放弃无人驾驶业务，它只是不再致力造自家品牌的无人驾驶汽车罢了。据外媒的报道，新公司 Waymo 今后将加强与传统汽车厂商的合作，转向开发类似有方向盘和刹车这类能合法上路的自动驾驶技术。

过去八年，谷歌在公共道路上对无人驾驶汽车进行了超过 200 万英里的测试，模拟测试的里程则已达 10 亿英里。 John Krafcik 表示，Waymo 将「很快」公布无人驾驶汽车技术将在何时做好投入实际生产的准备。

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