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The new policy also means that there's no driverless cars

March 10, 2017 by Kenneth Newton

The new policy also means that there's no driverless cars on a street car, which is something that the first-generation Waymo cars are currently operating. Waymo plans to begin testing driverless vehicles in the coming weeks, even though it plans to wait until after that first year of autonomous development.

The company's first public test of driverless cars comes on May 22, when CEO David Pachter announced that he is "making some preliminary decisions based on some of the feedback received from the early drivers." The company also reported that the first driverless car is expected to arrive in 2018.

While the new policy won't make it legal for Waymo to sell automated vehicles to customers in the United States if the company doesn't meet any of its three conditions—that it don't sell cars to people who haven't already paid for the services, that it don't sell them to cars that don't have any way to track their whereabouts—the company did offer guidance on how to meet the three conditions.

"In the future, we will make sure that the first-generation Waymo vehicles are fully autonomous," Pachter said at the time. The company's other condition, which will be met by the second-generation Waymo cars, is that they are capable of driving autonomously. But that requires Waymo to be able to track its cars. If the car doesn't have the ability to track its whereabouts, it cannot be legally equipped with sensors to track its whereabouts.

Pachter added that the company is also doing all it can to meet those conditions, and that its engineers are working on the software that would automatically detect the whereabouts of its customers. At the last moment, the company is still looking at how to make sure the system will work correctly.

At the moment, there is no way to track your location, and the company is still figuring out how to make sure that it is. That means that, even though Waymo is now offering a system that can track a customer's location, there may be other ways to know when the customer is traveling, and if the car is running, too — and then how to make sure the car knows that it is not being driven.

"It's a completely different paradigm," said Tom Shaver, a computer science professor at Northwestern University. "There will be no kind of vehicle that can track someone's movements. There will be no kind of vehicle that can track how they are going and where they are going and