In recent years, Waymo has anchored his longstanding goal to revolutionize urban transport by using a completely autonomous, scalable and sustainable ravage service.
In cooperation with the car manufacturer Magna, the company in Alphabet ownership has taken a further step in this direction with the opening of a new vehicle factory in Metro Phoenix, Arizona.
On the new 239,000 square meter website, thousands of Jaguar-i-Paces will be equipped with Waymo’s fully autonomous technology, Waymo said on Monday in a post on his website.
The company stated that there are now more than 1,500 autonomous vehicles in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Austin and provides more than 250,000 paid trips to users. Waymo also has plans to start his service in Atlanta, Miami and Washington, DC next year.
These new cities will probably receive many of the more than 2,000 fully autonomous I-Pace vehicles that come from the production line in 2026.
“We are proud to bring this technology – once as the stuff of science fiction – to bring more and more drivers in this country,” said Waymo.
The Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai recently proposed to offer its autonomous vehicles for personal possessions and to discuss the idea with Toyota, although such a scenario with regulatory hurdles for fully driverless vehicles is still high.
Waymo seems to be well reduced in a very competitive sector. A number of competitor cruise in General Motors ownership and Ford/VW-von Argo Ai, under them, determined the effort to create the technology and the associated services too far, which forced its closures in 2024 and 2022.
But it was also not all smooth for Waymo, since various technological incidents on public roads led to an increasing examination of the supervisory authorities.
While many studies have suggested that the autonomous vehicles from Waymo are safer than human drivers, the recent investigation by Professor Missy Cummings, director of the Autonomy and Robotics Center at George Mason University, found that Waymo, while Waymo, is better as a human driver, his crash rate, about 1,000 per 100 miles – still worse than the average human driving.
However, Cummings emphasized that the comparison of the security of the autonomous vehicle with human drivers is scientifically problematic, since people together drive trillion miles annually, while driverless cars have only registered ten million, which make the current comparisons statistically invalid.
Autonomous-Car technology has made amazing improvements in recent years, but the limited ability to manage all types of traffic scenarios and weather conditions will probably take some time before the supervisory authorities grant companies such as Waymo broader operational freedoms.