A first-hand account of riding in a Waymo autonomous vehicle in Phoenix, combined with an exploration of how open research culture shaped self-driving technology. Waymo, while not open source itself, emerged from Google's self-driving project influenced by DARPA challenges. It contributes back to the research community via the
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