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Waymo operates in some of its testing markets, such as Chandler, Arizona, at [[SAE automation level|L4 autonomy]] with no one sitting behind the steering wheel, sharing roadways with other drivers and pedestrians.<ref name="Hawkins17"/><ref name="Etherington17">{{cite web |author=Darrell Etherington |date=November 7, 2017 |title=Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/waymo-now-testing-its-self-driving-cars-on-public-roads-with-no-one-at-the-wheel/ |access-date=June 13, 2018 |publisher=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref> Waymo's earlier testing focused on areas without harsh weather, extreme density, or complicated road systems, but it has moved on to test under new conditions.<ref name="Ohnsman18">{{cite web |author=Alan Ohnsman |date=March 2, 2018 |title=Waymo Is Millions Of Miles Ahead In Robot Car Tests; Does It Need A Billion More? |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2018/03/02/waymo-is-millions-of-miles-ahead-in-robot-car-tests-does-it-need-a-billion-more/#719d148b1ef4 |access-date=June 13, 2018 |work=[[Forbes]]}}</ref><ref name="Davies17"/> As a result, beginning in 2017, Waymo began testing in areas with harsher conditions, such as its winter testing in Michigan.<ref name="della Cava17"/>
 
In 2014, a critic wrote in the ''MIT Technology Review'' that unmapped stoplights would cause problems with Waymo's technology and the self-driving technology could not detect potholes. Additionally, the lidar technology cannot spot some potholes or discern when humans, such as a police officersofficer, signal the car to stop, the critic wrote.<ref name="Gomes14">{{cite web | url=http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530276/hidden-obstacles-for-googles-self-driving-cars/ | title=Hidden Obstacles for Google's Self-driving Car | author=Lee Gomes | date=August 28, 2014 | access-date=October 6, 2014 | archive-date=March 16, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316001705/http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530276/hidden-obstacles-for-googles-self-driving-cars/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> Waymo has worked to improve how its technology responds in construction zones.<ref name="Castro18">{{cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17307156/google-waymo-driverless-cars-deep-learning-neural-net-interview |title=Inside Waymo's strategy to grow the best brains for self-driving cars |author=Alex Castro |date=May 9, 2018 |publisher=[[The Verge]] |access-date=July 3, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Jaffe14">{{cite news |url=https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/04/first-look-how-googles-self-driving-car-handles-city-streets/8977/ |title=The first look at how Google's self-driving car handles city streets |author=Eric Jaffe |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |date=April 28, 2014 |publisher=[[CityLab (web magazine)|CityLab]] |access-date=July 3, 2018}}</ref>
 
California regulators do not require Waymo to disclose every incident involving erratic behavior in its fleet. In the first five months of 2023, San Francisco officials said they had logged more than 240 incidents in which a Cruise or Waymo vehicle might have created a safety hazard.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liedtke |first=Michael |date=August 5, 2023 |title=Recalling a wild ride with a robotaxi named Peaches as regulators mull San Francisco expansion plan |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/recalling-wild-ride-robotaxi-named-peaches-regulators-mull-102044826 |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref>
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