On March 14, 2024, a Waymo self-driving Jaguar taxi drove on the streets of Los Angeles, California.
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Waymo currently provides more than 100,000 paid robo-taxi rides a week in the U.S., according to one company LinkedIn Announcements Presented by Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO. That’s double the company’s 50,000 paid trips per week report in May.
spokesperson for the organization letterOn Tuesday, the company’s self-driving car company told CNBC that San Francisco currently “offers the most rides” among the cities where Waymo operates its commercial services: San Francisco, Phoenix, Austin and Los Angeles.
last month, Alphabet announced The company invested an additional $5 billion in Waymo, which launched in 2009 as the company’s self-driving project.
Monday, Waymo reveal details Regarding its new “sixth generation” self-driving system, the system will allow the company to provide driverless services in a wider range of weather conditions without having to install many expensive cameras and sensors in the vehicle.
Waymo currently has about 700 vehicles and operates Waymo One, the only commercial robotaxi service in the United States.
Waymo previously partnered with Phoenix-based ride-hailing giant Uber to serve existing users of the app. Waymo said in a statement on Tuesday that it added 90 square miles to its service area in Phoenix in June, making it the largest self-driving ride-hailing territory in any state.
This month, Waymo also expanded its San Francisco robo-taxi service to three new areas in California — Daly City, Broadmoor and Colma — and is currently testing its self-driving cars on highways around the San Francisco metro area .
While CNBC could not independently confirm the company’s safety claims, Waymo also said that “across more than 14.8 million miles driven, Waymo drivers are 3.5 times better than human drivers at avoiding collisions that result in injuries and are 3.5 times better at avoiding collisions that result in police reports.” The number of collisions is three times higher than that of human drivers.”
Although Didi and Didi Chuxing offer commercial robotaxi services Pony.ai Although Waymo is already up and running in China, it currently faces limited domestic competition. General MotorsOwned cruise ship experience setbacks Self-driving cars are temporarily off the road, and companies like Uber and Ford have halted efforts to develop robotaxis.
Elon Musk’s electric car maker, TeslaFor years, the company has promised to transform customers’ existing vehicles into self-driving vehicles through software updates. However, the company has yet to produce a car capable of acting as a robotaxi. Tesla plans to unveil its CyberCab, or purpose-built robotaxi, at a highly anticipated event on October 10.
