The Alphabet Inc. unit says it’s going to let “trusted testers” hail Waymo One robotaxis at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport, initially with backup human safety drivers behind the wheel.
Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving tech unit, says it’s expanding its Waymo One robotaxi service in metro Phoenix, Arizona, to the city’s busy airport, where it expects demand for rides to be high eventually. The move comes at a time of upheaval in the self-driving vehicle industry.
The Mountain View, California-based company said that starting today it’s letting “trusted testers,” a limited group of riders registered in its network, hail electric Jaguar I-PACE SUVs in its Phoenix fleet round the clock. Rides will be available between downtown Phoenix and Sky Harbor International Airport and Waymo is also working with the airport to ferry passengers to the 44th Street light-rail train stop about 2 miles away.
Waymo employees have already been using its robotaxis to get to the airport and expanding access to a portion of the public is intended to help improve the service “before we roll out more broadly,” the company said. Broadened airport service in Phoenix comes after Waymo said last month that it’s also preparing to launch its autonomous ride service in Los Angeles and begin ferrying passengers in San Francisco. It’s provided fully autonomous rides in suburban Phoenix, with no human at the wheel, since 2020 and has focused on extending commercial operations across that sprawling city.
Waymo’s gradual expansion comes as the outlook for self-driving companies grows tougher and the push to fully automate vehicles with no human at the wheel an increasingly costly, long-term challenge. On Monday, TuSimple, a Waymo rival in autonomous trucking,
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