Waymo’s Self Driving Car is On the Roads
Try not to get creeped out, but the future is here.
Waymo, which started as the Google self-driving car project in 2009, is ready for the next phase. Starting now, Waymo’s fully self-driving vehicles — the most advanced self-driving vehicles on the road today — are test-driving on public roads, without ANYONE 😳 in the driver’s seat. And soon, members of the public will get to use these vehicles in their daily lives.
“Alphabet Inc’s Waymo self-driving unit is launching a ride-hailing service for the general public with no human driver behind the steering wheel and has been testing such fully self-driving cars on public roads in Arizona,” Chief Executive John Krafcik said on Tuesday.
Waymo is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.
The public will begin riding in its fleet of Fiat Chrysler Pacifica minivans with Waymo technology, sans human drivers in the next few months.
Passengers will be accompanied in the back seat by a Waymo employee, but will soon travel alone in the robotic car. The service will be free, but Waymo expects at some point to start charging for rides.
Would you go for a ride?
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