Waymo starts testing its autonomous cars in Atlanta


Waymo started offering free autonomous rides in Phoenix last April as a way to promote its self-driving cars. The Alphabet-owned company has been trying to ramp up its own ride-sharing service to compete with Uber and Lyft, with a driverless taxi service with which the company hopes to cover a region larger than London. Now, Waymo is expanding beyond Arizona, with a test program set to launch in Atlanta, Georgia.

According to The Verge, Waymo started mapping Atlanta's downtown areas last week for an up-to-date, accurate map of the area, an important dataset for self-driving cars. The test program has seen the Waymo fleet cover 4 million miles, with a million of those driven in the last six months of 2017. In addition to Phoenix, the test program has been running in San Francisco, Austin and Kirkland, Washington.

Via: The Verge

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