Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

Re:Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads w... by jvolkman on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @02:38PM (#15646745)

I think there's more than that. The safety report they released recently indicates the vehicles also have redundant power systems, redundant braking systems, redundant steering systems, etc. I doubt that the stock configurations require as much redundancy.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads w... by organsnyder on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @04:39PM (#15647908)

Ah, that could be. Though could that be talking about redundant processing (i.e. two dependent algorithms making the same decision) rather than duplicate hardware?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads w... by jvolkman on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @04:50PM (#15647995)

Don't think so. You can read the descriptions on page 17 of the report: https://storage.googleapis.com/sdc-prod/v1/safety-report/way...

For example: The steering system features a redundant drive motor system with independent controllers and separate power supplies. Either one can manage steering in the case that a failure occurs in the other

[ Parent | on HN ]