Phoenix. This number of paid rides is double what the company reported in May this year, with 50,000 paid rides weekly.
These numbers and the announcement were published by the co-CEO of Waymo Robotaxi, Tekedra Mawakana in a post on the X platform (formerly Twitter).
This expansion of rides comes just a month after the Alphabet company announced that it is planning to invest more than $5 billion in the company despite the skepticism and federal investigations that these companies are facing.
The Robotaxi company is now reaching a milestone in this field with hundreds of Jaguar I-Pace vehicles that are using machine learning technology to be fully electric and autonomous. The Waymo company has not yet disclosed a specific number of vehicles available but according to Freedom of Information Act requests from the California Department of Revenue, the company could have about 778 Robotaxi available for driving in the state. For now, it’s not very clear if these ML vehicles are operating also in Phoenix.
Waymo opened back in June the services to everyone, and now it continues to grow in Phoenix and in California where they had the most notable expansion after receiving the final permits to operate their Robotaxi service.
Since these events, Waymo has changed its services to a 24-hour and seven-day-a-week in all the areas in San Francisco and now they keep moving into other areas in Los Angeles. Also, the Robotaxi company has recently expanded its ride service in the Peninsula of San Francisco along with Daly City and recently started to test machine learning vehicles with no human driver on the freeway area.
They also operate in Austin, but for now, they haven't charged the driverless rides in that area.
When the Chief Product Officer Saswat Panigrahni was asked about this situation regarding the expansion of the Waymo Robotaxi company, he stated "People still think of autonomous vehicles as the faraway future, but for more and more people they're now an everyday reality,"
We see that Waymo's Robotaxi company is in a continuous expansion in the U.S. territory, and is facing some competition as Tesla is expected to reveal an electric vehicle in October this year.
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