Waymo stated it’s launching absolutely driverless robotaxi rides for workers in Atlanta, an essential step earlier than the corporate opens the service as much as members of the general public later in 2025.
This is the newest sign of Waymo’s push into new markets, and it comes two months after the corporate closed a $5.6 billion Series C spherical at a $45 billion valuation. The spherical was led from heavy hitters together with Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Tiger Global, and others.
The firm earlier this week introduced plans to check in 10 new cities this 12 months, beginning with San Diego and Las Vegas.
When Waymo formally launches its business robotaxi service in Atlanta, will probably be completely by way of the Uber app. Waymo and Uber additionally plan to launch collectively in Austin this 12 months.
The Alphabet-owned self-driving firm opened up robotaxi rides to sure members of the general public in Austin in October after first providing rides to workers seven months earlier.
Waymo’s Atlanta milestone comes a day after Elon Musk stated Tesla would launch a robotaxi service in Austin in June. Tesla has but to convey a completely autonomous automobile to public roads that doesn’t require a human driver behind the wheel able to take over.
Waymo runs its personal autonomous ride-hail service, Waymo One, in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.
