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From the
Waymo Safety Report, page 17:
"If our autonomously driven vehicle can no longer proceed on a planned trip, it must be capable of performing a safe stop, known as a “minimal risk condition” or fallback. This might include situations when the autonomous system experiences a problem, when the vehicle is involved in a collision, or when environmental conditions change in a way that would affect safe driving within our operational design domain.
Waymo’s system is designed to detect each one of these scenarios automatically. In addition, our system runs thousands of checks every second, looking for faults. Our system is equipped with a series of redundancies for critical systems, such as sensors, computing, and braking. How our Waymo Driver responds varies with the type of roadway on which a situation occurs, the current traffic conditions, and the extent of the technology failure.
Depending on these factors, the system will determine an appropriate response to keep our riders, our vehicle, and other road users safe, including pulling over or coming to a safe stop."
So I say it has full MRC capabilities because it can do all the steps of MRC: it can detect problems that might require a MRC, has full hardware redundancy, can determine appropriate MRC and then perform appropriate MRC, including pulling over or coming to a safe stop, based on environmental conditions.
ps : If ever there was a Waymo PR type statement here, that was it. Are you sure you don't work for Waymo PR ?
No, I do not. I am just an informed fan of autonomous driving. I read their safety reports, law enforcement guide, research papers etc to be informed on how their tech works.
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