Inside The City Where Waymo Tests Self-Driving Vehicles

In Chandler, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, Waymo’s fleet of 600 minivans shuttling people from place to place. Ordering one feels almost exactly like calling a Lyft or Uber, except for one thing: the vans drive themselves. Alphabet’s Waymo has been testing self-driving vehicles in Arizona since 2017 and we got a look at what it’s like. Alphabet’s self-driving car company Waymo has built the world’s smartest vehicles with access to the world’s best artificial intelligence, but there’s one barrier that it