71% of American adults uncomfortable riding in driverless cars... Waymo tests 1,000 scenarios
Original headline미 성인 71% 무인차 탑승 불편…웨이모는 1000개 상황 시험
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Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said the Alphabet-owned robotaxi unit builds roughly 1,000 simulated variants of each real-world driving scenario to test its self-driving system against conditions it has not yet encountered on the road, using actual road data as the basis. The disclosure, made in a Bloomberg interview, comes as Pew Research Center polling shows 71% of U.S. adults are uncomfortable riding in a driverless vehicle. The 1,000 figure refers to constructed test scenarios, not 1,000 real-world crashes. The gap highlights the trust hurdle facing robotaxi operators as Waymo scales its sixth-generation autonomous hardware.
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