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Waymo Will Manually Drive All of Singapore for a Year Before an Autonomous Wheel Turns
Waymo published its Singapore plan, picked up on Hacker News September 18 at 121 points. The timeline is deliberately slow: manual driving and mapping of every region of the city-state through 2026, running 24/7 to catch all road conditions, autonomous driving with trained local specialists behind the wheel around 2027, and commercial service in 2028. It starts on all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles with the fifth-generation Waymo Driver, working with Singapore's Ministry of Transport and the Land Transport Authority on approvals. No fleet size is stated. A two-year mapping-to-service runway is the counterweight to every claim that end-to-end driving models made HD maps obsolete.
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