California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations

It's been a long time coming, but Waymo is doing it. Waymo is scaleable and on the march! They've been announcing plans to roll out in new cities every month or 2 all year, and by the end of 2026 they'll be testing or offering the public rides over 30 metropolitan areas.

I'm most curious to see how they do in the winter city of Minneapolis over the next several months.

yeah - me too

Competition does encourage action. Glad Tesla started rolling out their robotaxies.

The dancing robots are going to drive them.

Good idea, robots don’t fall asleep.

Are you suggesting that Waymo is responding to Tesla? My reading it Waymo was always on a schedule and Tesla wasn't a factor

First slowly and then suddenly.

I took my first Waymo in SF this week. As a midwestern, freezing weather was my immediate first thought.

Tesla is not competition to Waymo.

There are 10 other companies that are currently testing without a driver. Those are competition.

Tesla so far is a gimmick of self-driving with a safety driver that takes over once in a while. That's where Waymo was more than 5 years ago.

The recent version of FSD in my Tesla is pretty amazing. Press "Start FSD" when in my driveway, and 20 minutes later it arrives at my destination and parks, without any input from me the entire time. I was skeptical too about FSD for a while but I'm starting to believe. These days I pretty much only disengage it when I'm impatient that it's being too polite. Unsupervised isn't far off!