Waymo 首席技术官谈自动驾驶坚持与安全Waymo CTO on Persistence and Safety in Autonomous Driving
**核心要点**：Waymo 联合创始人兼 CTO Dmitri Dolgov 分享了从 DARPA 挑战赛到今天 2000 万次全自动驾驶的旅程。Waymo 通过基础模型驱动 Driver、Simulator 和 Critic 三大支柱，采用端到端世界动作模型并辅以结构化中间表示，实现了超人级安全。目前每周全自动驾驶超过 400 万英里，在运营城市中严重伤亡碰撞风险比人类低 13 倍。
Dolgov 强调，自动驾驶周期性炒作常见，但真正成功需要相信使命并理解长尾困难。安全是不可谈判的基础，从第一天就融入架构和团队心态。
引用："世界范围内，每 26 秒就有人因道路碰撞失去生命。"
Dolgov 强调，自动驾驶周期性炒作常见，但真正成功需要相信使命并理解长尾困难。安全是不可谈判的基础，从第一天就融入架构和团队心态。
引用："世界范围内，每 26 秒就有人因道路碰撞失去生命。"
**The Takeaway**: Building full autonomy requires two decades of persistence through hype cycles, grounded in a critical mission and rigorous safety-first engineering.
Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov, a veteran since the DARPA challenges, details the journey from early Google self-driving project to 20 million fully autonomous rides. Waymo's Foundation model powers the Driver, Simulator, and Critic pillars as a multimodal world action language model. They go beyond vanilla end-to-end with structured materialized intermediates for validation, rich training, and superhuman safety—driving 4+ million autonomous miles weekly and reducing serious injury collisions by over 13x versus humans in their cities.
Dolgov stresses understanding that breakthroughs reshape the early curve but not the difficult long tail. Safety is non-negotiable: "Worldwide, somebody loses their life to a crash on our roads every 26 seconds."
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Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov, a veteran since the DARPA challenges, details the journey from early Google self-driving project to 20 million fully autonomous rides. Waymo's Foundation model powers the Driver, Simulator, and Critic pillars as a multimodal world action language model. They go beyond vanilla end-to-end with structured materialized intermediates for validation, rich training, and superhuman safety—driving 4+ million autonomous miles weekly and reducing serious injury collisions by over 13x versus humans in their cities.
Dolgov stresses understanding that breakthroughs reshape the early curve but not the difficult long tail. Safety is non-negotiable: "Worldwide, somebody loses their life to a crash on our roads every 26 seconds."