The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.
As Waymo deploys more driverless cars to 15 U.S. cities and counting, its vehicles keep encountering new and unexpected situations that they have no script to handle.
The driver told investigators he was using the vehicleβs automated-driver system when the vehicle left the roadway and crashed into a house in Harris County, Texas.
The Silicon Valley companyβs ambitions to roll out autonomous cars nationwide have hit political roadblocks in some of the countryβs biggest markets.