Waymo extends its Robotaxi service in the Silicon Valley

Waymo will start to offer Robotaxi walks with people from his “Waymo One” rider program at Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and “Parts de Sunnyvale” from Wednesday, an expansion that will bring its imprint in the Silicon Valley to 27 square miles.

Waymo vehicles will be available 24 hours a day, and new territories are added to the 55 square miles of coverage already offered in the San Francisco Bay region, the company announced on Tuesday.

Expansion is part of a year in charge of growth in commercial deployments and geographic tests for Waymo.

Last week, Uber users in Austin, Texas, could start to match Waymo vehicles on the carpooling application. Uber and Waymo plan to provide the same service to Atlanta later this year. (Waymo employees took Autonomous trips In this city since January.) Waymo also launches in Miami, in partnership, With the African mobility startup Moove.

Waymo also plans to test up to 10 new American cities this year, especially Las Vegas and San Diego – something he is able to do thanks to a Massive funding bound of $ 5.6 billion This ended at the end of last year, promoting the Robotaxi company at $ 45 billion.

With cruises Now dead businessWaymo is underway as the main American company in Robotaxi.

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, said his company planned to test a version of its Robotaxi service promised for a long time in Austin in JuneAnd maybe in California and other places by the end of this year. Avride Spinoff Uber and Yandex also plans to launch a Service in Dallas this year. Zoox, belonging to Amazon, also works to run a commercial launch in Las Vegas and, finally, in San Francisco too.