Waymo introduced Tuesday that it’s going to carry each of its automobiles — the Jaguar I-Tempo SUV and the Zeekr van — to Denver and Seattle beginning this week, the most recent transfer in a continued growth throughout the US.
The automobiles will likely be manually pushed to begin, earlier than the corporate begins testing its autonomous tech in each cities. Waymo informed TechCrunch that it hopes to begin providing robotaxi journeys in Denver subsequent 12 months and the Seattle metropolitan space “as quickly as we’re permitted to take action.” Denver and Seattle will likely be two of essentially the most extreme-weather cities that Waymo is feeling out, giving it an opportunity to check out its tech in snow, wind, and rain that’s more durable to come back by in locations like Phoenix.
The brand new cities be part of a rising checklist of locations the place Waymo is working within the U.S. Simply final week the corporate introduced that it has greater than 2,000 robotaxis in its business fleet countrywide, with 800 within the San Francisco Bay Space, 500 in Los Angeles, 400 in Phoenix, 100 in Austin, and “dozens” in Atlanta. Waymo has additionally introduced plans to launch a business robotaxi providers in Dallas, Miami, and Washington, D.C., subsequent 12 months, and not too long ago obtained a allow to begin testing in New York Metropolis.
That’s to not point out the opposite cities the place Waymo has dipped its toes. It’s introduced automobiles on “highway journeys” to locations like Philadelphia and plans to do the identical in Las Vegas, San Diego, Houston, Orlando, and San Antonio.
