06 JUN

Waymo announces 7 million miles of testing, putting it far ahead of rivals

A Waymo executive announced on Tuesday that the company’s self-driving car fleet would reach 7 million miles of testing this week.

“We’ve amassed close to 7 million miles—we’ll hit 7 million miles this week,” said Shaun Stewart, Waymo’s director of operations, at the Innovfest Unbound conference in Singapore.

What makes this truly remarkable is that Waymo announced its last milestone—6 million miles—less than a month ago. Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov made that announcement at the Google I/O conference on May 8.

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