Waymo expanding autonomous ride service to San Francisco

Waymo, the Google self-driving conveyance spinoff, is expanding its autonomous ride-hailing work to San Francisco.

Selected "trusted tester" customers successful the metropolis by the bay volition beryllium capable to hail a thrust successful self-driving Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicles, the company said.

For present the vehicles volition person quality backup drivers connected board. But astatine immoderate constituent the institution plans to tally the vehicles without them similar it present does successful the Phoenix area.

Waymo began the programme past week with a fewer testers and is present expanding it, the institution said. It would not accidental however galore vehicles are progressive oregon erstwhile it plans to propulsion the quality backups.

The attack is akin to what Waymo did successful Phoenix erstwhile it started a constricted ride-hailing work successful 2017. The institution says it has fixed thousands of afloat autonomous rides successful metro Phoenix since October of 2020.

People who privation to articulation the program tin bash truthful by downloading the Waymo One app.

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