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Waymo will start offering robotaxi rides to masses in its “ Waymo One ” other rider programme in Mountain View , Los Altos , Palo Alto , and “ part of Sunnyvale ” starting Wednesday , an expansion that will bring its footmark in Silicon Valley to 27 square miles .
The Waymo fomite will be useable around - the - clock , and the new territories summate to the 55 square mile of coverage already offered in the San Francisco Bay Area , the caller say Tuesday .
The expansion is part of a busy twelvemonth of growth in both commercial deployments and of geographic examination for Waymo .
Just last week , Uber users in Austin , Texas could start getting pair to Waymo vehicles on the drive - hailing app . Uber and Waymo plan to bring the same service to Atlanta afterwards this twelvemonth . ( Waymo employee have been takingautonomous tripsin that metropolis since January . ) Waymo is set in motion in Miami , too , in partnershipwith African mobility startup Moove .
Waymo also plans to test in as many as 10 raw U.S. cities this year , includingLas Vegas and San Diego — something it ’s able to do thanks to amassive $ 5.6 billion funding roundthat closed belatedly last year , valuing the robotaxi company at $ 45 billion .
With Cruise’scommercial business now utter , Waymo is racing ahead as the leading U.S. robotaxi party .
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said his troupe project to trial a version of its long - promised robotaxi servicein Austin in June , and possibly in California and other locations by the end of this year . Uber and Yandex spinoff Avride also plan to launch aservice in Dallas this year . Amazon - ownedZooxis also working to spin up a commercial launch in Las Vegas and , eventually , in San Francisco as well .
