Waymo Autonomous Rides Now Available To Everyone In San Francisco: Here's How You Can Enjoy Driverless Car Travel
Waymo Autonomous Rides Now Available To Everyone In San Francisco: Here's How You Can Enjoy Driverless Car Travel
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary Waymo said on Tuesday that its autonomous ride-hailing service called Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco around the clock, making it the second city where anyone can simply download the app and hail an autonomous car to get around.
Alphabet Inc.（納斯達克：GOOG）（納斯達克：GOOGL）的子公司Waymo表示，其名爲Waymo One的自主駕駛叫車服務現在全天向舊金山市所有人開放，這是第二個城市可以通過下載應用程序簡單地叫一輛自主駕駛車輛四處行駛。
What Happened: "We've been operating in San Francisco for years now, deliberately scaling our service over time. With tens of thousands of weekly trips, our Waymo One service provides safe, sustainable, and reliable transportation to locals and visitors to the city alike. Now it's available to anyone," Waymo said in a statement.
Waymo表示：“我們在舊金山已經運營多年，有意地逐步提高我們的服務規模。通過數萬次每週的旅行，我們的Waymo One服務爲當地人和遊客提供安全、可持續和可靠的運輸。現在，它對於任何人都是可用的。”
San Francisco has now joined Phoenix, Arizona, as the only other city where Waymo One rides are available to everyone.
舊金山現在加入了亞利桑那州菲尼克斯市，成爲Waymo One乘車服務向所有人提供的僅有的兩個城市。
Until recently, Waymo One rides were only available to those who signed up to ride with the company and joined its waitlist. The company was adding new riders to the service incrementally. However, it has now scrapped the waitlist altogether, after over a quarter of the city's population signed up to ride with it.
直到最近，Waymo One的乘車服務僅向那些註冊並加入等待名單的人提供。公司逐步爲服務增加新的乘客。不過，現在公司已經完全取消等待名單，因爲該公司超過該城市總人口四分之一的人已經註冊加入。
Interested riders can now simply download the Waymo One app and take a ride across the city.
有興趣的乘客現在可以簡單地下載Waymo One應用程序，穿越這座城市。
Why It Matters: However, safety concerns continue to plague autonomous vehicle operators including Waymo.
然而，安全問題繼續困擾着Waymo等自主駕駛車輛運營商。
Earlier this month, Waymo recalled 672 of its self-driving vehicles after identifying their inability to avoid a pole or pole-like objects. The company identified the issue after one of its self-driving cars collided with a wooden utility pole in an alleyway in Phoenix, Arizona late last month, is said in a filing with the U.S. auto safety regulator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
本月早些時候，Waymo召回了672輛自主駕駛車輛，因爲發現這些車輛無法避開杆狀或類似杆的物體。公司是在上個月晚些時候位於亞利桑那州菲尼克斯市的一條小巷中，其一輛自主駕駛汽車與一根木製公用事業杆相撞之後，向美國汽車安全監管機構國家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）提交的一份文件中說出的。
Waymo fixed the issue with a software update to improve its reaction to pole-like objects and "robust" mapping updates and improvements.
Waymo通過軟件升級和“強大”的映射更新和改進，解決了桿狀物體的反應問題。
In May, NHTSA commenced a probe into Waymo vehicles following reports of unexpected driving behaviors. These reports included collisions with stationary and semi-stationary objects such as gates and chains, as well as collisions with other parked vehicles. Some instances also pertain to the driving system disobeying traffic rules.
今年五月，NHTSA在有關意外駕駛行爲的報告後，開始調查Waymo車輛。其中包括與靜止和半靜止物體的碰撞，如門和鏈條，以及與其他停放車輛的碰撞。一些情況也涉及駕駛系統不遵守交通規則。
The regulator expressed concern that these driving behaviors may increase the risks of crash and injury. "Although this office is unaware of injury allegations, several of the incidents involved collisions with clearly visible objects that a competent driver would be expected to avoid," the regulator wrote in a letter to Waymo dated May 23.
監管機構表達了對這些駕駛行爲可能增加風險和風險的擔憂。監管機構在5月23日致Waymo的一封信中寫道：“雖然這個辦公室不知道有傷害的指控，但其中幾起事故涉及與明顯可避免的物體發生碰撞的事故。”
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