Waymo: 16 Years from Google Demo to Glob Diagram

失败与踩坑

• The 18-month demo versus the 15-year pro…
• The 2017 trade secret lawsuit against Ub…
• The May 2024 incident where a vehicle hi…
• Early over-reliance on high-definition m…
• The conservative strategy during John Kr…

关键成功要素

• Adhering to a redundant sensor suite (Li…
• Leveraging 16 years of continuous financ…
• Mastering the unit economics in favorabl…
• Offloading asset-heavy tasks—such as veh…
• Systematically building trust with regul…

经验教训

• There is a decade-long gap of reliabilit…
• Safety records are the only brand asset …
• When a single-city profitability model i…
• Outsourcing asset-heavy segments to ecos…
• Regulatory trust must be earned city by …