Name: Beyond Tesla: Driverless Startups Promise Next-Level Autonomous Vehicles | WSJ
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- Autonomous driving is a big technological challenge.

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It comes with a feature known as autopilot.

- [Narrator] Several other cars being sold today

also come with assisted driving technology

which still requires someone behind the wheel.

But new vehicles that won't have anyone in the driver's seat

Startups Waymo, Cruise, TuSimple, and Aurora,

We'll start to see this move from prototypes

to actually scaling products (indistinct).

- We see us becoming fully driverless in 2024.

- [Narrator] As they invest billions in R&D

their valuations have soared and TuSimple has gone public.

They're pitching a future where people won't even own cars.

- Younger generations won't even think about owning a car.

- [Narrator] And some jobs will no longer exist.

- We fundamentally believe that every trucker will be able

and the public that their technology is safe.

if consumers are not comfortable getting into your vehicle

- [Narrator] So could these startups make driving

on making its vehicles autonomous since around 2016

and said it planned to have self-driving cars

- [Narrator] For now, experts say these cars

- It is a level two system where they're saying

that the driver has to be there, they have to pay attention.

Well, it's a scale used by auto engineers

- Which means, you know, kind of a 1950s car

- [Tekedra] Basically when the car can do everything,

- You can drop it off in Afghanistan today

and it will be able to operate without maps by itself.

- [Narrator] Instead of releasing vehicles

these top startups want to roll them out directly

Which is where the car doesn't need a driver

as long as it's preloaded with information

about its surroundings like maps and directions.

- And we just simply think level four is the goal

- [Narrator] Some companies in the US and Asia

say they've reached level four in some vehicles

though none have rolled them out at commercial scale

Waymo and Cruise have piloted a fleet of robotaxis

that has a fully autonomous ride-hailing service

available to the public today in the Phoenix metro area.

from its vehicles after its cars racked up

gathering troves of data for its algorithms.

They take a ride from point A to point B.

That's one of the ways you make this real,

and you see if customers will actually adopt the service

- [Narrator] Waymo started as a Google project in 2009,

and now has a $30 billion valuation and Alphabet,

Google's parent, as a majority shareholder.

Cruise has roughly the same valuation as Waymo

With whom it has built an autonomous vehicle from scratch.

It has accrued fewer miles than Waymo, some two million,

because ultimately the goal is to put this technology

interacting with other human-driven vehicles.

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