Waymo is sending autonomous vehicles to 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, the company shared exclusively with The Verge. The vehicles will be manually driven, and the testing operations are not necessarily a precursor to the launch of a commercial robotaxi service.
A security researcher who lives in San Francisco discovered an unreleased feature in Waymo’s app that allows customers to tip for their robotaxi rides. Jane Manchun Wong, a security researcher who also successfully hacked the display dome on top of a Waymo vehicle to display her name,
Waymo plans to start testing autonomous vehicles in 10 new cities this year, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, according to The Verge. Although this
First responders were on the scene of a multi-vehicle collision Sunday night in San Francisco that killed one person and injured or impacted seven, according to the fire department.
A deadly, multi-car collision in San Francisco on Sunday evening marks the first time in the U.S. that a truly autonomous vehicle, with no one in the driver’s seat, has been involved in a fatal collision,
Several people were injured after a crash involving multiple vehicles Sunday evening in the SoMa neighborhood, the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) said. San
In a lawsuit filed in December 2023, The City claimed that the California Public Utilities Commission had erred and abdicated its responsibilities when it handed Waymo and Cruise
A man detained by police following a fatal multi-vehicle crash in Sunday evening was arrested Monday, police said.
The great nightly Waymo honk-a-thon — in which the company's robotaxis erupted into a chorus of honking at night's end in a San Francisco parking lot— was resolved, then not. The backstory: Software engineer Sophia Tung set up a livestream of the parking lot that captured the robotaxis streaming in to park — and honk — for up to an hour around 4 a.
The victim in a deadly seven-car crash involving a Tesla Sunday evening in San Francisco has been identified. Mikhael Romanenko, 27, of San Francisco, was killed in
Waymo robotaxis have become a common sight on Los Angeles surface streets. Now those driverless vehicles are heading to the city's network of freeways.
The California Public Utilities Commission approved Waymo's autonomous vehicle program in Los Angeles in March 2024. The service was expanded to the public in November. Aside from Los Angeles, the company also has driverless cars in San Francisco and Phoenix, with plans to expand to Austin, Atlanta and Miami.