Google To Use Driverless Autonomous Vehicles To Transport Employees Within San Francisco

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced Wednesday its Waymo self-driving ride-hailing service will begin transporting employees to destinations within San Francisco without human backup drivers.

The Silicon Valley tech giant said the employees would be transported in electric Jaguar I-Pace SUVs. Previously the company had been testing the vehicles with a safety driver behind the wheel just in case.

Waymo didn’t elaborate on when it might offer autonomous rides to the public in San Francisco. The company has been using autonomous minivans without human backups to carry passengers in the East Valley of the Phoenix metro area since 2020.

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