However, the road tests don’t necessarily indicate that commercial services are being imminently planned in these locations. So citizens of San Diego and Las Vegas — and the eight other locations — may spot a Waymo touring their cities this year, but they won't be able to hop in for a ride anytime soon.
Waymo is sending autonomous vehicles to 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, the company shared exclusively with The Verge. The vehicles will be manually driven, and the testing operations are not necessarily a precursor to the launch of a commercial robotaxi service.
First responders were on the scene of a multi-vehicle collision Sunday night in San Francisco that killed one person and injured or impacted seven, according to the fire department.
A deadly, multi-car collision in San Francisco on Sunday evening marks the first time in the U.S. that a truly autonomous vehicle, with no one in the driver’s seat, has been involved in a fatal collision,
Waymo has already driven 1.9 million miles in Los Angeles. Its short history, maybe inevitably, hasn't been without bumps that have raised concerns.
Several people were injured after a crash involving multiple vehicles Sunday evening in the SoMa neighborhood, the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) said. San
Jeffrey Tumlin, the recent former director of transportation at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, explains why adaptability was key for the transit organization during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Waymo, the self-driving division of Google parent Alphabet, announced Wednesday it plans to bring its autonomous taxis in San Diego this year.
Waymo, the California-based autonomous vehicle company, has brought a limited fleet of vehicles piloted by trained, human autonomous specialists to test on Las Vegas roads, company officials
The great nightly Waymo honk-a-thon — in which the company's robotaxis erupted into a chorus of honking at night's end in a San Francisco parking lot— was resolved, then not. The backstory: Software engineer Sophia Tung set up a livestream of the parking lot that captured the robotaxis streaming in to park — and honk — for up to an hour around 4 a.
This post was updated Jan. 31 at 12:32 p.m. Driverless taxis are no longer futuristic dreams for Angelenos. Autonomous ride-hailing platform Waymo launched to the Los Angeles public last November, deploying around 100 vehicles in a 79-square-mile area from Santa Monica to downtown.
Waymo robotaxis have become a common sight on Los Angeles surface streets. Now those driverless vehicles are heading to the city's network of freeways.