Members of the general public can now take a Waymo robotaxi, with no human behind the wheel, between downtown Phoenix and Sky Harbor International Airport.
across major U.S. cities in the coming years. Waymo, while certainly not averse to scale, seems to be focused more on hitting new use cases in existing markets.
"Instead, what I would say we're focused on is the markets were are in — which is now two serious ride-hailing markets," he said."As we're launching the service, making the service more useful, getting more of the trip occasions...Now it's more important to us that where we are in Phoenix and San Francisco, we're serving more kinds of riders...which is why the airport occasion really matters in Phoenix.
"I think the pool of hundreds of vehicles gives us enough flexibility to be able to dynamically increase the number of available fully autonomous vehicles at times of demand, and in other times, just make sure we're getting value from test mileage and other kinds of experiments we're running," he said.
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