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Waymo begins testing the waters for a robotaxi service in Los Angeles (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Daryl76679@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] dawnerd@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haven’t they been running in LA for many months now?

[–] Daryl76679@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article says that they've been preparing for awhile, but they are now looking to start commercial service.

Waymo has had a small fleet of vehicles mapping the streets of LA since at least 2019, but it only began to make preparations for a commercial service in recent months. Aside from mapping, Waymo has been following its traditional playbook of deploying its vehicles in autonomous mode with a human safety driver behind the wheel before transitioning into a commercially available service.

[–] dawnerd@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Must have been test drives then, seen them driving around a bunch for a while now. LA is gonna be a real test of its capabilities for sure!