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Title: Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:00:15 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/transportation/waymo...

Waymo can now test its self-driving cars in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams
has announced. Local authorities have granted the company the permit needed
to be able to test autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown
Brooklyn. It's the first-ever permit for the "testing deployment" of AVs the
city has granted. Waymo will be able to deploy a fleet with up to eight
vehicles in the city until late September 2025. For now, though, the permit
only allows Waymo to test its AVs with drivers behind the wheel.

The company announced earlier this year that it was going to test its
driverless system in 10 new cities in 2025. In June, it filed a request for
permission to test its AVs in New York City in hopes that it can someday
bring its autonomous ride-hailing service to the Big Apple. To note, while
Adams said the city granted Waymo the first permit of its kind, the company
deployed its vehicles to map some parts of NYC back in 2021.

Under the permit, Waymo will be required to regularly report the data
gathered from its testing to the Department of Transportation to certify that
it's "adhering to the industryΓÇÖs best practices related to cybersecurity."
Waymo will be given the opportunity to apply for an extension after its pilot
testing period ends in September. It may have to continue testing them with
human operators for a while, though: New York state law prohibits the
operation of vehicles without a driver behind the wheel, but Waymo told
Forbes that it's lobbying to change the regulation.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/transportation/waymo...
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