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Waymo’s driverless cars are finally ready for the highway
AV companies typically avoid the highway.
The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its fully driverless vehicles would begin tackling the higher speeds of Phoenix’s freeways, all while ferrying passengers to and from their destinations. Waymo says it will approach freeway trips with some degree of slowness — not in terms of vehicle speed, but with regard to which passengers it accepts. In contrast, most automakers only allow their customers to use partially autonomous advanced driver assist systems, with features such as adaptive cruise control and lane-centering, on divided, limited-access highways.
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