Th3 Core

Level 4.5, I'm guessing?  Phoenix, from what I've driven of it, is a good city to get the precise data needed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-selfdriving/waymo-launching-ride-hailing-service-in-phoenix-with-no-human-behind-wheel-idUSKBN1D72BU

>this came sooner than I thought

Same.  Debbie says that Big G has the advantage here in a way that parallels Amz's Alexa and they're going to press that advantage as fast as possible. 

Somewhere around here we have an a-v thread that said cities would get levels 4-5 first because the current level of sensors and mapping would support it.  Make sense and looks like that's what's happening here.  I haven't looked, but I suspect Phoenix has a strong rectangular grid layout as a number of our 'newer' cities do.  Boston, OTOH, will be waaaay down the list.

>grid

A good start for N America.  London and N Europe will give them fits.  It maybe decades before such cars are ready for little narrow roads in medieval Italian towns.

>video

I am impressed.  But my first thought was "these are the bunny slopes"  very light traffic.  I'd like to see it in downtown Chicago at rush hour.

Random thought, how does one of these deal with construction zones?  Also what about a flag man or a cop directing traffic I've seen some flagged so lazy with their signals I didn't know what they wanted me to do.

This is definitely NOT a bunny slope; trial to test one of the vehicles on a public road in heavily congested Okinawa Prefecture

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201711190002.html

> construction zones

Reroute around construction zones?

> nutonomy

Ok that's funny, brand fail of the day.