{"id":199365,"date":"2024-11-13T02:25:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/waymos-robotaxis-now-open-to-anyone-who-wants-a-driverless-ride-in-los-angeles"},"modified":"2024-11-13T02:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T08:25:47","slug":"waymos-robotaxis-now-open-to-anyone-who-wants-a-driverless-ride-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/waymos-robotaxis-now-open-to-anyone-who-wants-a-driverless-ride-in-los-angeles","title":{"rendered":"Waymo\u2019s robotaxis now open to anyone who wants a driverless ride in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/waymos-robotaxis-now-open-to-anyone-who-wants-a-driverless-ride-in-los-angeles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waymo has expanded its robotaxi service to the general public in Los Angeles, allowing anyone with the Waymo One app to request a ride. This marks a significant step in autonomous vehicle technology, as Waymo continues to lead the industry with over 50,000 weekly passengers and a strong safety record.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to anyone who wants a ride around Los Angeles, marking another milestone in the evolution of self-driving car technology since the company began as a secret project at Google 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion comes eight months after Waymo began offering rides in Los Angeles to a limited group of passengers chosen from a waiting list that had ballooned to more than 300,000 people. Now, anyone with the Waymo One smartphone app will be able to request a ride around an 80-square-mile (129-square-kilometer) territory spanning the second largest U.S. city.<\/p>\n<p>After Waymo received approval from California regulators to charge for rides 15 months ago, the company initially chose to launch its operations in San Francisco before offering a limited service in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo has expanded its robotaxi service to the general public in Los Angeles, allowing anyone with the Waymo One app to request a ride. This marks a significant step in autonomous vehicle technology, as Waymo continues to lead the industry with over 50,000 weekly passengers and a strong safety record. Waymo on Tuesday opened its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199365","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}