Waymo said on Thursday that it will try to teach its self-driving cars about snow by taking part of its fleet to a place with notoriously fierce winter weather: Michigan.
Waymo, the Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, said it’s expanding its test fleet to the metropolitan Detroit area specifically to gain experience with driving in snowy and icy conditions.
Waymo said it will begin testing its prototype self-driving vehicles in Michigan next week. Image source: Alphabet.