{"id":18809,"date":"2022-03-30T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18809"},"modified":"2022-03-30T11:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T15:37:33","slug":"waymo-driverless-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18809","title":{"rendered":"Waymo kicks off fully driverless rides in San Francisco, for employees only initially"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo has been inching its way toward fully autonomous rides for the population of San Francisco, and this week it\u2019s taking a big step. Starting today, Waymo is conducting fully driverless taxi rides in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.waymo.com\/2022\/03\/taking-our-next-step-in-city-by-bay.html\">a blog post<\/a>, Waymo announced that this morning saw the first fully driverless ride in its all-electric Jaguar I-PACE on the streets of San Francisco. There was no human driver behind the wheel of the vehicle, with a Waymo engineer as a passenger on a commute to work. Following that, the rest of Waymo\u2019s San Francisco employees will be able to commute to work using the autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands today, the program is <em>only<\/em> available to Waymo\u2019s employees within the city, but will \u201csoon\u201d expand to the company\u2019s \u201cTrusted Tester\u201d program. <\/p>\n<p>The eventual goal, of course, is fully autonomous rides for the public, as Waymo has been offering in Arizona. Alongside today\u2019s announcement, Waymo also revealed that it will be expanding service in Phoenix to the downtown area, again starting with engineers behind the wheel at first, and a Trusted Tester program later on.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Our commitment to Phoenix and the community there remains strong, and we\u2019ll soon be expanding to another area: Downtown Phoenix. Just as we\u2019ve done before, we\u2019ll start with Waymo employees hailing trips with autonomous specialists behind the wheel, with the goal of opening it up to members of the public via our Trusted Tester program soon after.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Waymo has also posted a new video showing one of its vehicles driving fully autonomously in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe id=\"post-youtube-video\" title=\"Our first days of fully autonomous driving in San Francisco\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8TSA-X9UlU?feature=oembed&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Just at the end of February, Waymo <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2022\/02\/28\/waymo-one-sf-fare\/\">was given permission by<\/a> the State of California to operate 24\/7 in San Francisco and charge fares for rides. Late last year, Waymo also expanded training <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2021\/11\/03\/waymo-nyc-training-driving\/\">to New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-more-on-waymo\">More on Waymo:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\" readability=\"6.3518518518519\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/9to5google?sub_confirmation=1\"><i>Check out 9to5Google on YouTube for more news:<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- youtube embed --><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Recent Videos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F6XBkVVMbTI?playlist=S0GAtQj--E4,D55t-T5qDRM,QWEdCvmW-h4,R6mmnMmIDdk,o9yqI-p7Lxc,kOeMcwBGuio,t0oXQOk4Jj4,ah2sZW5S1Ww,7n5BuiZB-U0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo has been inching its way toward fully autonomous rides for the population of San Francisco, and this week it\u2019s taking a big step. Starting today, Waymo is conducting fully driverless taxi rides in San Francisco. In a blog post, Waymo announced that this morning saw the first fully driverless ride in its all-electric Jaguar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}