A detailed set of simulation models are developed to evaluate various possible configurations of regional driving fleets.
They get paid well enough, you might think, to suffer in silence but equally they probably have a point when they returned from one night game in London in the early hours and, rather than resting, had to clock in the following morning to film a go-kart race outside Old Trafford, driving a fleet of miniature Chevrolets.
In a town with few sources of wealth, the surveillance teams have identified warehouses, apartment buildings and a nightclub as Bach properties and videoed the Bachs and their men driving a fleet of new high-end vehicles, some of which have had their licence plates changed.
Blixseth and his wife, Edra, lived an extravagant life flying around in two Gulfstream jets, driving a fleet of fancy cars that included a $440,000 Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupé and spending lavishly to maintain multiple homes, including $750,000 a month for a lush estate with its own golf course near Palm Springs.
Humans are more comfortable when cars drive in ways that include recognizable behavior, so Google has trained its self-driving fleet not only to execute three-point turns, but to do so in a way that "feels natural" to those on board.
Although its first self-driving fleet is small just four cars available for hire, travelling short distances near downtown it is likely to grow.
TechCrunch understands Uber's self-driving fleet in Arizona has been grounded, following the incident, while an investigation is undertaken.
Earlier this year, Waymo placed an order for even more Chrysler Pacifica minivans from FCA to outfit its self-driving fleet.
Waymo has already been offering members of the public access to its self-driving fleet – for two months, during a limited trial in Phoenix, Arizona.
Uber pinned hopes on running its self-driving fleet in San Francisco but motored off to Arizona two months ago when that plan ran up against some local red tape.
