Waymo continues to develop, and develop, and develop. The corporate simply expanded its robotaxi providers into extra California cities. The corporate is providing rides in additional areas of the Bay Space this week, and will probably be providing rides in additional areas of the Los Angeles metro space subsequent week.
Because the brief video above exhibits, Waymo is extending into South San Francisco, San Bruno, Millbrae, Burlingame, Brisbane, and Menlo Park this week, and into Silverlake, Inglewood, and Downtown LA subsequent week. To be sincere, I initially thought it was only a minor growth, however trying on the map visuals, this can be a BIG growth. Count on Waymo to be logging so much extra rides quickly. And are there exponential advantages to that? Does that imply Waymo will have the ability to broaden even rather more quickly? We’ll see.
Waymo additionally lately shared that it’s getting ready for its launch alongside Uber in Atlanta, which is occurring this summer time.
Additional, Waymo has been on an enormous street journey throughout the USA, and it lately shared updates on the place it was stopping, together with San Antonio and Houston, Texas, and Orlando, Florida.
Waymo is actually on a roll, and it’s spectacular to see after such sluggish development for therefore lengthy how shortly the corporate is rising and increasing in increasingly more locations.
Is Tesla lastly going to get into the sport as nicely, beginning in Austin, Texas? Who is aware of? The launch that was presupposed to occur this previous week has been delayed. Why? Who is aware of? As Steve Hanley wrote earlier at this time, numerous considerations stay. Even when Tesla does launch robotaxi service in Austin, how a lot and how briskly may it truly broaden such robotaxi service? Who is aware of?
I truly wasn’t going to even convey Tesla into this, however I unintentionally opened the next tweet proper subsequent to the Waymo ones:
That was from October 2016, practically 9 years in the past! The next is the complete tweet thread from that, implying that Tesla robotaxis have been practically able to deploy:
Personally, I believe Waymo robotaxis do look fairly, particularly the approaching Zeekr and Hyundai IONIQ 5 fashions.
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