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Message   VRSS    All   Waymo Starts Robotaxi Testing In Philadelphia and NYC   July 7, 2025
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Title: Waymo Starts Robotaxi Testing In Philadelphia and NYC

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/07/2136...

Waymo has launched new "road trips" to Philadelphia and New York City,
"signaling the Alphabet-owned company's interest in expanding into
Northeastern cities," reports TechCrunch. While these trips don't guarantee
commercial launches, they follow a pattern that previously led to deployments
in cities like Los Angeles. Other road trips this year are planned for
Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego, and San Antonio. From the report:
Typically, the trips involve sending a small fleet of human-driven vehicles
equipped with Waymo's autonomous driving system to map out the new city. Then
Waymo tests the vehicles autonomously, though still with a human behind the
wheel, before taking any data and learnings back to its engineers to improve
the AI driver's performance. In some cases, these road trips have led to
commercial launches. In 2023, the company made a road trip to Santa Monica, a
city in Los Angeles County. The company now operates a commercial service in
Los Angeles, including Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and Hollywood. For its
Philadelphia trip, Waymo plans to place vehicles in the most complex parts of
the city, including downtown and freeways, according to a spokesperson. She
noted folks will see Waymo vehicles driving "at all hours throughout various
Philadelphia neighborhoods, from North Central to Eastwick, University City,
and as far east as the Delaware River." In NYC, Waymo will drive its cars
manually in Manhattan just north of Central Park down to The Battery and
parts of Downtown Brooklyn. The company will also map parts of Jersey City
and Hoboken in New Jersey. Waymo applied last month for a permit to test its
AVs in New York City with a human behind the wheel. The company has not yet
received approval.

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