🚗 Waymo doubles the number of paid robotaxi trips to 100,000 per week

🚗 Waymo doubles the number of paid robotaxi trips to 100,000 per week

Waymo now provides over 100,000 paid robotaxi trips per week in the USA. The company has expanded its service to new areas in California and Arizona. Waymo is now testing driverless vehicles on highways around the San Francisco area.

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  • Waymo now provides over 100,000 paid robotaxi trips per week in the USA.
  • The company has expanded its service to new areas in California and Arizona.
  • Waymo is now testing driverless vehicles on highways around the San Francisco area.

Rapid growth for Waymo's robotaxi service

Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, has doubled the number of trips in its robotaxi service from 50,000 in May to 100,000 now. San Francisco has become the city where Waymo performs the most trips among the cities where the company operates its commercial service. In addition to San Francisco, Waymo also operates in Phoenix, Austin, and Los Angeles.

Waymo has recently expanded its service in Phoenix by 90 square kilometers, making it the largest autonomous taxi area in the USA. In California, the company has expanded its San Francisco-based robotaxi service to three new areas: Daly City, Broadmoor, and Colma.

Alphabet announced last month an additional investment of $5 billion in the company.

Technical advances and safety

Waymo has revealed details about its new self-driving system, called generation 6. This system is expected to enable driverless services in a wider variety of weather conditions and with fewer costly cameras and sensors in the vehicles.

The company claims that their driverless system is 3.5 times better at avoiding accidents that cause injuries and three times better at avoiding police-reported accidents compared to human drivers. This is based on data from over 23.8 million kilometers driven with passengers only.

Future plans

Waymo is now testing its driverless vehicles on highways around the San Francisco area. This is a step towards expanding the service beyond the southern states where the company currently operates.

The company has a fleet of about 700 vehicles and operates the only commercial robotaxi service in the USA, known as Waymo One. In June, Waymo started a collaboration with Uber in Phoenix to make its service available to Uber's existing users in the area.

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