A Waymo employee reveals how the company is putting their self-driving cars to the test (GOOGL)

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• Stephanie Villegas is a Googler who studied art before going to work for the Google Car project, now Waymo.
• She located unused real estate at a former US Air Force base in California to transform it into a massive proving ground for Waymo self-driving vehicles.
• Castle is now a 91-acre site that Waymo uses to throw everything its engineers can think of to challenge Waymo's self-driving cars.

Editor's note: Business Insider had the chance to speak with two Waymo employees from different parts of the company to learn more about their work. What we discovered were some of the coolest jobs at Alphabet, Waymo's parent company. This is the first in the series.

Stephanie Villegas was taking a break at Google's campus when a weird-looking Toyota changed everything.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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