Waymo's Driverless Rides Are Hitting Freeways, Starting in These Cities
- Waymo said Wednesday it will begin driverless robotaxi rides on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and Phoenix starting Nov. 12, 2025, with broader rollout following.
- Waymo prepared by more than a year of employee freeway testing, supplemented with closed-course testing and simulation, using two onboard computers for redundancy.
- Pierre Kreitmann said, `On freeways, critical events happen less often, and that means that there are fewer opportunities to expose our system to real scenarios`, and Waymo vehicles will stay at or below 65 mph, sometimes reaching 68, or take surface streets in heavy rain.
- Waymo says freeway driving can reduce ride times by up to 50%, creating a unified 260-mile service area that includes San Jose Mineta International Airport with a $4 airport service fee.
- Federal traffic-safety authorities opened a probe in May 2024 after 22 reports, including 17 collisions, while local officials and critics cite incidents and Waymo plans expansions to Dallas, Miami, Nashville, Las Vegas, Detroit, and London next year.
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Driverless robot taxis will take to Bay Area freeways
In a first for the U.S., Waymo on Wednesday started offering driverless robot-taxi rides on freeways in the Bay Area, along with Los Angeles and Phoenix. The pioneering Google spinoff will also expand service down the Peninsula all the way into San Jose, and serve riders to and from Mineta San Jose International Airport, creating broad new trip-taking opportunities for residents and visitors. A map showing robotaxi company Waymo’s expanded servi…
Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous car transport company (Google), announced that it will start offering motorway trips.
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