""Freeway driving is one of those things that is very easy to learn but very hard to master," Dolgov said last week during a press event preceding Wednesday's public announcement of the freeway service."
""strong focus on system safety and reliability""
""That's a tremendous risk that Waymo's taking right now, in their ambition to scale as quickly as they can with as little local control as possible - they're risking the ultimate tragedy," Cortese said last week, before learning about the freeway expansion."
Waymo will begin driverless robot-taxi freeway service on Nov. 12 in the Bay Area, while already operating in Los Angeles and Phoenix. Service will expand down the Peninsula to San Jose and include trips to and from Mineta San Jose International Airport, increasing trip opportunities for residents and visitors. Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov said freeway driving is easy to learn but hard to master and pledged a strong focus on system safety and reliability for freeway travel. Some local officials, including state Sen. Dave Cortese, raised safety and local-control concerns. Waymo previously encountered incidents in San Francisco and a May 2024 federal probe.
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