Beginning life as Google’s internal self-driving vehicle project, Alphabet-owned autonomous driving specialist Waymo was created in 2009 as a business to bridge the gap between self-driving cars and robotaxis.
As of March 2023, testing one of its autonomous EVs on the streets of Austin, Texas, to showcase the first prototype of its Waymo Driver – the Firefly.
The Waymo One ride-hail service is already available to the public in Phoenix, Arizona, and San Francisco, California. In August the company announced it had received its driverless deployment permit from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the final step in a robust process with regulators before it could offer a paid fully autonomous ride-hailing service in San Francisco. Following this, Waymo said it would begin charging fares for rider-only trips in the city and gradually welcoming some of the 100,000 riders on the waitlist into the service.
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