We’re grateful to the California PUC for this vote of confidence in our operations, which paves the way for the deployment of our commercial Waymo One service in LA and the SF Peninsula.

✅ Phoenix ✅ San Francisco ✅ Los Angeles ✅ Austin

Angelenos and Austinites: we’ve got news for you. Beginning tomorrow, we’ll start inviting members of our waitlist to ride with us permanently in LA. And in Austin, we’ll continue fully autonomous testing before welcoming public riders later this year. Read more:

Axios blocks ChatGPT from their site which makes it unable to find the headline I was looking for. Copilot finds it. axios.com/robots.txt

The whisper model defaults to “thanks for watching” when it doesn’t hear anything nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

In the coming weeks, we will begin testing fully autonomous rides — without a human driver— for our employees on San Francisco Peninsula city streets north of San Mateo.

2 years ago we sent one (1) rider-only car running the 5th generation Driver out in SF. youtube.com/watch?v=O8TSA-… Now that Driver is in 4 cities serving 50K trips per week. 📈

check out this collision avoidance maneuver! at our scale (10M+ miles and >50k trips/wk) things that happen "once or twice in a lifetime" are more frequent than you'd think

waymo dodges an occluded oncoming left turner

We’re excited to announce that Waymo One is now open to SF riders — no more waitlist or invite codes! This is a key milestone in our mission to be the world’s most trusted driver, & we're thrilled to get more of you where you’re going safely. Ride today. waymo.com/blog/2024/06/w…

Riding in a Waymo feels like using the iPhone for the first time - a transcendent experience. I've ridden in self-driving Teslas before, but they always felt janky and dangerous. My Waymo rides have been ultra smooth and chill, as if God himself were driving.

2 million paid @waymo trips we are accelerating

waymo dodges a car pulling a u-turn from the wrong lane

you can take @waymo to H Mart now

100K trips/week 🚀

waymo braking hard to avoid collisions with VRUs (vulnerable road users) 🏃‍♂️🚴‍♂️

sunset tonight was very nice

cities 4 and 5 📈