Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced Wednesday its Waymo’s self-driving ride-hailing service will begin transporting employees to destinations within San Francisco without human backup drivers.
The Silicon Valley tech giant said the employees would be transported in electric Jaguar I-Pace SUVs. Previously the company had been testing the vehicles with a safety driver behind the wheel just in case.Waymo didn’t elaborate on when it might offer autonomous rides to the public in San Francisco. The company has been using autonomous minivans without human backups to carry passengers in the East Valley of the Phoenix metro area since 2020.
The program will start by carrying Waymo employees with safety drivers in the vehicles, with a goal of opening those rides to residents who join a “trusted tester” program soon after. No date was given for when the humans would be pulled from the vehicles.The testing in San Francisco comes as competitor Cruise LLC, a General Motors subsidiary, is seeking a permit to charge for fully autonomous rides in the city.
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