Waymo's driverless cars undergo 20,000 tests

Atwater, California

THERE is a man in a straw hat who earns his pay in Atwater by crossing the street over and over again. Sometimes he stares down at his cellphone, often he wanders outside of the crosswalk, and he's also known to ignore the traffic signal. What he does not do is pay any attention to the cars that barrel through the intersection.

If he did, he would have noticed that they had no drivers.