Passengers ride in an electric Jaguar I-Pace car outfitted with Waymo full self-driving technology in Santa Monica.Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s multibillion-dollar bet on self-driving cars and trucks, is pulling the human safety drivers out of its robotaxi test fleet in Los Angeles as it works to launch a commercial ride service in the second-biggest U.S. city.
, will begin running them as “fully autonomous” cars in the next few weeks, initially in Santa Monica, Mauricio Peña, Waymo’s chief safety officer, told“We’re starting with a dense urban area and are going to expand and scale after we do this initial testing,” Peña told, without elaborating on when paid public rides might start. “We're not providing a time line for Los Angeles right now, but are definitely doing all the steps we need to be ready to launch our commercial service.
We need to cover this story on our website... Or maybe we already did? ;)
So lower fares then?
Yeah except it's going to be geofenced and limited to such-and-such mph. Basically useless.
I’ve seen those driving all around in Chandler AZ