For several years, Waymo and Cruise and other companies tested their cars with a professional human “safety driver” supervising the car. The safety driver took over if the car did something scary.

Self-driving cars:GM dumps robotaxi plans; shifts autonomy work to personal cars Waymo plans to send less than 10 vehicles to each city, where they will be manually driven around for a couple of ...

The fast expansion of Waymo’s driverless car service is growing competition for Uber. The companies are also partners. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco In 2020, Uber was at a crossroads ...