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Waymo’s progress may go under the radar a bit compared to Tesla’s Full Self Driving progress, but let’s remember that Waymo is actually offering fully self-driving robotaxi service in some areas. Now, in San Francisco, the company is making a big step forward and “going big” by opening up its service to anyone in the public who wants to use it. Previously, you had to express interests and then find yourself on a waitlist.
August 2021: opened up robotaxi service to “trusted testers,” who had to sign NDAs and not share much info.At some point, started inviting people on its waitlist to start using the service — reportedly, that’s more than 300,000 people by now. Note that Waymo completely opened its service to riders in Phoenix back in 2020. Given that, it’s a hard to make any assumptions about what this San Francisco news means. And when can Waymo do something similar in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami, Tampa, etc? We’ll see … hopefully.
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