Waymos Can Take Freeways In The Bay Area, Los Angeles, And Phoenix Starting Today

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Automotive enthusiasts often shudder erstwhile they ideate a world wherever cars thrust themselves, but I don't deliberation that needfully needs to beryllium nan case. We already person cars that thrust themselves successful immoderate cities, including 1 wherever I live, and honestly I'm a proponent of nan exertion if it takes inattentive, impatient, impulsive, and perchance impaired drivers disconnected of nationalist roads. One of nan astir well-known robotaxi companies, Waymo, announced coming that its autonomous Jaguar i-Paces will officially beryllium tin of taking riders connected freeways successful nan San Francisco Bay Area, in Los Angeles, California and Phoenix, Arizona.

Waymos person completed complete 50 cardinal miles of driverless rides crossed its work areas, and yet its clang statistics are remarkably low. In fact, Ars Technica reviewed Waymo's clang information and recovered that nan immense mostly of crashes involving a Waymo were caused by different cars rear-ending, broadside swiping, and crossing nan centerline to deed nan autonomous vehicles.

Beyond todays announcement of freeway access, Waymo besides announced that it is expanding its work area beyond San Francisco proper, and now to nan full Peninsula including work to nan cities of San Bruno, San Mateo, San Carlos, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Mountain View, each nan measurement down to San Jose. This expanded work includes curbside work astatine San Jose Mineta International Airport (SJC).

Waymo plans to grow freeway capabilities to its driverless cars successful different regions including Austin Texas and Atlanta Georgia soon, but for now it's constricted to nan California Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. Though these regions stay mostly temperate passim astir of nan almanac year, wintertime approaches and will apt bring pinch it an array of weather-related surprises. Thanks to our continued emotion matter pinch fossil fuels, seasons and upwind systems person intensified complete nan past fewer years, which could beryllium challenging for these computer-driven cars to navigate safely.