"The vehicles will be manually driven to start, before the company starts testing its autonomous tech in both cities. Waymo told TechCrunch that it hopes to start offering robotaxi trips in Denver next year and the Seattle metropolitan area "as soon as we're permitted to do so." Denver and Seattle will be two of the most extreme-weather cities that Waymo is feeling out, giving it a chance to test out its tech in snow, wind, and rain"
"Just last week the company announced that it has more than 2,000 robotaxis in its commercial fleet country-wide, with 800 in the San Francisco Bay Area, 500 in Los Angeles, 400 in Phoenix, 100 in Austin, and "dozens" in Atlanta. Waymo has also announced plans to launch a commercial robotaxi services in Dallas, Miami, and Washington, D.C., next year, and recently received a permit to start testing in New York City."
Waymo will bring its Jaguar I-Pace SUV and Zeekr van to Denver and Seattle, starting with manually driven operations before testing autonomous systems. The company plans to begin offering robotaxi trips in Denver next year and in the Seattle metropolitan area as soon as permitted. Denver and Seattle will provide extreme-weather environments—snow, wind, and rain—that will test sensors and software more rigorously than warmer markets. Waymo now operates a more than 2,000-vehicle commercial fleet across the U.S., including major deployments in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin. Additional commercial launches and road-trip tests are planned in multiple other cities.
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