beginnersinai：2026年自动驾驶的现状报告（英文版）

Self-driving cars are no longer a science project, but they are also nowhere near taking over the road. As of May 2026, one company (Waymo) gives 500,000 paid driverless rides a week across 11 US cities, a Chinese rival (Baidu Apollo Go) is doing roughly the same in 26 cities globally, and Tesla's heavily marketed Robotaxi service has done about 1.7 million paid miles total — which Waymo covers in a few days. That gap matters because it tells you which promises are real and which are hype