We took a ride in Alphabet's self-driving car, which just hit 2 million miles traveled on public roads

The entire automotive industry is racing to build autonomous driving technology, but few teams have been working on the problem longer than the company now known as Alphabet. Seven and a half years into the project, Alphabet’s X division said today that its cars have now driven 2 million miles on public roads in fully autonomous mode. That’s a collective 300 years of driving, an X spokeswoman said, during which the cars have navigated hundreds of millions of interactions with vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists.

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