He founded the world's first internet based business, is Chairman Emeritus of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was computing chair at Singularity University. In self-driving cars, he was on Waymo's early team and has advised the top startups (Zoox, Cruise, Starship) as well as major auto OEMs on the future of transportation.
, without a waitlist. Previously, they had a fairly long waitlist. The service area, about 80 square miles from downtown LA to Santa Monica, remains the same as before. Over its service areas, Waymo is doing 150,000 rides per week with nobody but the passengers in the vehicle.
Waymo will have only 100 vehicles in Los Angeles, so without a waitlist expect it to be somewhat busy. It is not yet going to any of the airports—only Phoenix has that highly popular destination. It’s ‘Unsustainable’—Tesla CEO Elon Musk Issues Serious U.S. ‘Bankruptcy’ Warning As Bitcoin And Dogecoin Fuel $3 Trillion Price Boomof a robotaxi service. It means the service feels it is ready to handle high customer volume, and to let just anybody experience how rides went. It’s a step in moving from pilot projects to actual scaling. Of course, Waymo already did this in Phoenix and San Francisco, so it’s not quite the same leap.
Los Angeles is, of course, very much a car city, with low transit ridership and less taxi use than San Francisco, at least per capita. As such, it is in some ways a more challenging market for TNC style ride-hail service, though Chandler, AZ, their original city also was hardly a taxi-using city. It will be interesting to see how they respond to this environment now that the service is in full swing.
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