Move that same system to another city, however, and much of the work starts again.

Roads must be mapped, local driving behavior understood, new traffic patterns tested and the system validated under a different set of conditions.

Even Waymo, despite completing millions of autonomous rides in the United States, has begun its Munich expansion with manual mapping and local testing.

Instead of relying on one large AI system to process every scenario in the same way, Autobrains divides driving tasks among specialized AI agents.

Autobrains had already established an office in the city before the Uber program, making Munich an important base for its European development and testing.