{"id":164271,"date":"2023-05-20T02:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cruise-waymo-near-approval-to-charge-for-24-7-robotaxis-in-san-francisco"},"modified":"2023-05-20T02:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:22:32","slug":"cruise-waymo-near-approval-to-charge-for-24-7-robotaxis-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cruise-waymo-near-approval-to-charge-for-24-7-robotaxis-in-san-francisco","title":{"rendered":"Cruise, Waymo near approval to charge for 24\/7 robotaxis in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cruise-waymo-near-approval-to-charge-for-24-7-robotaxis-in-san-francisco2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-driving vehicle companies Waymo and Cruise are on the cusp of securing final approval to charge fares for fully autonomous robotaxi rides throughout the city of San Francisco at all hours of the day or night.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the city\u2019s mounting resistance to the presence of AVs, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cpuc.ca.gov\/SearchRes.aspx?ProposedDecisions=1&DaySearch=30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published two draft resolutions<\/a> late last week that would grant Cruise and Waymo the ability to extend the hours of operation and service areas of their now-limited robotaxi services.<\/p>\n<p>The drafts are dated for a hearing June 29, and there\u2019s still room for public comments, which are due May 31. Based on the CPUC\u2019s drafted language, many of the protests raised by the city of San Francisco have already been rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-driving vehicle companies Waymo and Cruise are on the cusp of securing final approval to charge fares for fully autonomous robotaxi rides throughout the city of San Francisco at all hours of the day or night. Amid the city\u2019s mounting resistance to the presence of AVs, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) published two draft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}