"Since last year, however, Alphabet's robotaxi service has begun to scale up quickly. It's now fully open to the public in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and the San Francisco Bay Area. And today the company is announcing that it's testing fully autonomous trips, sans human driver, in Miami, and plans to do so in Orlando, Florida; Dallas; Houston; and San Antonio in the coming weeks."
"For now, the only passengers will be Waymo employees. But the news is one of the final big milestones before the company offers rides to the public in those five cities, which it says it expects to do next year once all the necessary logistics are in place. In most of the cities, Waymo began driving with an in-car supervisor late last May. (Remote human monitoring and control remain part of the system in all service areas.)"
"By autonomy standards, taking the human out of the driver's seat in five cities over such a short period is a one-fell-swoop sort of move. According to Waymo Chief Product Officer Saswat Panigrahi, the 10 million driverless rides the company has already completed helped it reach this point. "Having dealt with high-speed roads in Phoenix and very narrow corridors in San Francisco, L.A. was faster," he told me. "Austin was faster than that. Atlanta was faster than that. So this is just the next step.""
Waymo has expanded its robotaxi service to be fully open to the public in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The company is testing fully autonomous, driverless trips with Waymo employees in Miami and plans driverless tests soon in Orlando, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Remote human monitoring and control remain part of the system in all service areas. Waymo completed 10 million driverless rides, which the company cites as a basis for rapid multi-city driverless rollout. Additional cities are listed as coming soon or planned for future service expansion.
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