• Daryl76679@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    The article says that they've been preparing for awhile, but they are now looking to start commercial service.

    Waymo has had a small fleet of vehicles mapping the streets of LA since at least 2019, but it only began to make preparations for a commercial service in recent months. Aside from mapping, Waymo has been following its traditional playbook of deploying its vehicles in autonomous mode with a human safety driver behind the wheel before transitioning into a commercially available service.

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      1 year ago

      Must have been test drives then, seen them driving around a bunch for a while now. LA is gonna be a real test of its capabilities for sure!