As of Monday, Oct. 8, tech company Waymo is publicly offering a self-driving car service in the Phoenix area. Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—is opening up their fully driverless car service on their app, which allows Waymo One users to take friends and family along on their rides.
Waymo has already been facilitating driverless rides throughout 2020 to a select group under an NDA, but are now public with their plans to expand. At this time, only those who are already Waymo One users can hail rides, but in the coming weeks, they plan to add more people into the service through their app (available on Google Play and the App Store).
“It’s really remarkable to have the world’s first fully driverless ride hailing service, Waymo One, in Mesa and the East Valley,” said Mesa mayor John Giles. “As Mesa grows and evolves, this innovative technology is in alignment with our City’s future, and I’m excited that our residents will be among the first to take advantage of this one-of-a-kind service.”
After Waymo finishes adding in-vehicle barriers between the front row and the rear passenger cabin later this year, they’ll also be re-introducing rides with a trained vehicle operator, which will add capacity and serve a larger geographical area.
For more information, visit waymo.com
This article appears in Oct 8-14, 2020.
They have already run over and killed a woman in tempe. I guess once is not enough!
The acronym hides a lot. Let’s spell it out, hold it under the light and examine it.
An “NDA” is a non-disclosure agreement–i.e., these driverless vehicle companies want to keep the glitches secret from the general public while they hoodwink people into believing this is a good idea.
Why the big push for driverless vehicles? Well, pretty much the whole point of it is to put humans out of a job and increase profits for the people who own the technology.
This is just the latest example of the technology tail wagging the dog. Technology is supposed to serve humans, but increasingly it’s the other way around, and NO good will come of that.
But in this country, the Church of Technology is the number one religion and capitalism aggressively uses it to prioritize profits over people, so…we get the dangerous and profoundly idiotic phenomenon of driverless cars.
How are they still in business? They paid big money to “shut up” the
family of the poor women they killed. Probably their insurance companies money…This isn’t the “Jetson’s,” I wish it were true, but
I don’t think “self-driving” cars are ever going to better than those
driven by humans..Oh wait! Here come the self-driving Semi-Trucks,
Imagine the accidents they will cause and the numbers of casualties.