Google's Waymo Expanding Ride-Hailing Self-Driving Car Service To San Francisco

San Francisco CA

24 August, 2021

8:29 PM

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From CBS San Francisco: SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — Google's self-driving vehicle spinoff, Waymo, announced Tuesday that it's expanding its autonomous ride-hailing service to San Francisco. Selected "trusted tester" customers in the city by the bay will be able to hail a ride in self-driving Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicles, the company said. For now the vehicles will have human backup drivers on board. But at some point the company plans to run the vehicles without them like it now does in the Phoenix area. Read more at CBS CBS Local Digital Media personalizes the global reach of CBS-owned and operated television and radio stations with a local perspective.