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The Alphabet unit’s expansion of its ride service beyond Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area comes amid a rocky period for developers of self-driving vehicle technology.Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving vehicle unit, is debuting its robotaxi service in Los Angeles this week, its third commercial market and a notable move given the problems and slow progress plaguing the autonomous driving space.
“Once an unimaginable future, autonomous driving is now a real-world way of getting around for tens of thousands of people each week,” Tekedra Mawakana, Waymo’s co-CEO, said in an emailed statement.and best-funded autonomous driving company, as the de facto leader in a technology that’s proven far more difficult to master and deploy than anticipated a decade ago.
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