EV Magazine June 2023 | Page 97

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WAYMO

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The Alphabet-owned autonomous driving specialist was created in 2009 as a business to bridge the gap to self-driving cars and robotaxis . As of March 2023 , testing one of its autonomous EVs on the streets of Austin , Texas , to showcase the first prototype of its Waymo Driver – the Firefly .
The Waymo One ride-gail service is already available to the public in Phoenix , Arizona , and San Francisco , California , where they can enjoy the digital driving benefits on routes to and from the airport as well as trips around the Super Bowl .
Now , the company is testing its fifth generation of autonomous driver technologies in the Jaguar i-Pace .
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