Autonomous driving firm Waymo is now bringing its fully driverless autos to actual roadways in San Francisco.
Waymo stated in an announcement that an engineer for the corporate was the primary individual to obtain a trip from a completely autonomous automobile in San Francisco on Wednesday. This marked the beginning of different staff being the primary to entry take a look at rides within the metropolis as nicely. Employees are the solely folks in a position to entry the rides as of now.
“We’re particularly excited about this next phase of our journey as we officially bring our rider-only technology to San Francisco—the city many of us at Waymo call home,” Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana stated in an announcement.
“We’ve learned so much from our San Francisco Trusted Testers over the last six months, not to mention the innumerable lessons from our riders in the years since launching our fully autonomous service in the East Valley of Phoenix. Both of which have directly impacted how we bring forward our service as we welcome our first employee riders in SF,” Mawakana added.
The transfer to fully driverless rides in San Francisco comes after greater than a yr of testing in Phoenix by its “Trusted Tester” program. Waymo has examined rides with a human driver behind the wheel whereas the automobile maneuvers throughout different exams.
Waymo hopes to broaden the service to the general public and different members of its Trusted Tester program sooner or later.
We’re taking the subsequent step in our journey—each in San Francisco and in Phoenix. Last week, our staff started taking absolutely autonomous rides within the City by the Bay, and shortly we’ll be increasing our Waymo One Trusted Tester program into Downtown Phoenix. https://t.co/oSjVNFQmn0 pic.twitter.com/rum953SOc9
— Waymo (@Waymo) March 30, 2022