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Driverless Transportation

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Google in the archive

Reports filed on Google between 2013 and 2017, kept at the addresses they were published under.

Reports
91
Period
2013–2017
Sources
6
Topic
Google

Context

The archive holds 91 reports filed under Google, spanning 2013–2017. The earliest is “Getting Started”; the most recent is “News Roundup: Waymo Debuts Level 4 Autonomous Cars on Public Roads, Renault Touts New Intelligent Driverless System, and More”. Original reporting came via Jennifer van der Kleut, Burney Simpson, Driverless Transportation and others.

This period matters for a specific reason: it is when the industry's assumptions were set. Testing permits were first issued, the acquisitions that consolidated the perception layer closed, the regulatory frameworks still in force were drafted, and a great many confident deployment dates were published. Almost all of those dates passed without incident, which makes the contemporaneous record more useful now than it was at the time — it can be read against what actually happened.

Coverage under Google overlaps most often with Driverless, Autonomous, driverless cars and Testing, which is a reasonable map of where the topic sat in the industry's attention.

For what the listed companies in this field did over the same period, the D20 index roster tracks the corporate side. For what has since been deployed on public roads, the deployment tracker records operators, cities and dates, and the research library holds the papers this reporting drew on.

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