Waymo says its Waymo Driver has logged more than 200 million fully autonomous miles, and the company distilled lessons from that experience into ten insights. Key takeaways: multimodal sensor fusion (cameras, lidar, radar) is required for safe autonomy at scale; HD maps serve as a useful prior; fewer, larger foundation models outperform modular stacks; an independent onboard validation layer guards against black-box failures; and closed-loop simulation surfaces rare edge cases.
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