Waymo gets fine to expand the Robotaxi service to more silicon Valley

The California Public Utilities Committee agreed to the Waymo request to expand the Robotaxi commercial service area, and opened the door to Alphabet to bring in a driver -run riding cars to more communities south of San Francisco.

The company said in a post on x approval Its plans will not change In the short term. Today, Waymo runs the Robotaxi commercial service in all San Francisco as well as parts of the peninsula. It also provides a driver without a driver to push customers in all cities of Silicon Valley, including parts of Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos and Sunnyvale. In all, the company’s service space is about 85 square miles covering San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

The company also aims to open Access to San Francisco International AirportAlthough these plans are in a much longer timetable. Waymo was granted permission in March to set roads in SFO via a temporary permit. Waymo vehicles will not work independently at the airport; Employees will manually drive vehicles to draw a map of the area. But the statement indicates the beginning of the gradual approach to Waymo in the end working commercially there.

Waymo provides 250,000 paid trips every week through its operations, which extend to Los Angelesand PhoenixAnd recently Austin.