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Waymo introduced Tuesday that it’s going to carry each of its automobiles — the Jaguar I-Pace SUV and the Zeekr van — to Denver and Seattle beginning this week, the newest transfer in a continued growth throughout the United States.
The automobiles can be manually pushed to start out, earlier than the corporate begins testing its autonomous tech in each cities. Waymo instructed TechCrunch that it hopes to start out providing robotaxi journeys in Denver subsequent yr and the Seattle metropolitan space “as soon as we’re permitted to do so.” Denver and Seattle can be two of probably the most extreme-weather cities that Waymo is feeling out, giving it an opportunity to check out its tech in snow, wind, and rain that’s tougher to come back by in locations like Phoenix.
The new cities be part of a rising listing of locations the place Waymo is working within the U.S. Just final week the corporate introduced that it has greater than 2,000 robotaxis in its industrial fleet countrywide, with 800 within the San Francisco Bay Area, 500 in Los Angeles, 400 in Phoenix, 100 in Austin, and “dozens” in Atlanta. Waymo has additionally introduced plans to launch a industrial robotaxi companies in Dallas, Miami, and Washington, D.C., subsequent yr, and just lately obtained a allow to begin testing in New York City.
That’s to not point out the opposite cities the place Waymo has dipped its toes. It’s introduced automobiles on “road trips” to locations like Philadelphia and plans to do the identical in Las Vegas, San Diego, Houston, Orlando, and San Antonio.