Waymo Cleared To Offer Robotaxi Rides At San Jose Airport

Waymo has been cleared to service its first airpot successful California: San Jose Mineta International. The institution announced Thursday that it will commencement testing its robotaxis location successful nan coming months, and that it plans to commencement offering commercialized rides by nan extremity of nan year.

The institution has spent years moving toward serving airports successful its location state. Waymo was going back-and-forth pinch officials astatine San Francisco’s airdrome backmost successful 2023 but was rebuffed. Earlier this year, though, Waymo was granted a licence to commencement manually mapping nan awesome airport arsenic a first measurement toward launching a commercialized work there.

Waymo started offering curbside drop-off and pick-up astatine Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport successful precocious 2023, and expanded to 24/7 work successful August 2024. The institution says it has since offered “hundreds of thousands” of trips to and from nan Arizona airdrome and that it’s nan astir celebrated destination successful Phoenix.

The institution has been connected an description tear lately. It has much than 2,000 robotaxis successful its nationwide fleet, pinch astir 800 successful nan Bay Area, 500 successful Los Angeles, 400 successful Phoenix, 100 successful Austin, and “dozens” successful Atlanta.

Earlier this week, Waymo revealed plans to grow work to Denver and Seattle, and nan institution antecedently announced that it will motorboat commercialized operations successful Dallas, Miami, and Washington, D.C. Waymo besides precocious received support to start testing its vehicles successful New York City.