Waymo Robotaxy Unit of Alphabet According to a notice posted on the regulator’s website on Friday,won the approval of the California Public Utilities Commission to expand the service to parts of Los Angeles and Bay Area.
The release said, waymo may start operating effective driverless passenger service from today in specified areas of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Peninsula. ” In mid-February, Waymo launched a voluntary recall filing notice with the National Highway Traffic Security Administration, saying that this software would fix problems.
This recall occurred on December 11 after two pre-unknown events in Phoenix, in which unmanned Waymo vehicles crashed in the same drawn pickup truck within a few minutes from each other. These collision have further increased the existing concerns about the use of autonomous vehicle in California. Competitive taxi and transit service providers and workers are concerned about the loss of jobs of drivers, while security advocates have asked regulators and politicians to fail Waymo’s expansion in the state by writing letters.
In February, the CPUC had suspended Waymo’s expansion efforts for up to 120 days to provide additional review time. In his letter on Friday, the regulator said that he is approving the new proposal, which is partially due to waymo’s Update Passenger Security Plan (PSP), which is submitted in relation to its extended operational design domain (ODD) for deployment, which was also approved. by California Motor Vehicle Department.
“We are thankful to the CPUC for this confidence vote in our operations, which paves the way for our commercial Waymo One Service deployment in the Los Angeles and the San Francisco Peninsula.” ” waymo’s progress in California comes after General Motors – Owned cruise and Apple Autonomous vehicles got out of the business in California, while Elon Musk’s Tesla So far there is yet to be developed an autonomous vehicle that can safely operate without a human driver under control.
California regulators stopped the operation of self-driving cruise robotaxis after several events in October, including an incident, resulting in a robotaxi climbing above a pedestrian, which was earlier banged by a man-driving car and then pulled it back about 20 feet. cruise vehicle.
Waymo’s new approvals allow the company’s Robotaxis to operate close to Tesla’s Palo Alto Engineering Headquarters in San Mateo County. The latest notice applies to commercial ride-sharing service Waymo One. The company has deployed test vehicles in those areas for several years.
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