Transport & space · November 2025

Driverless robotaxis on freeways

Robotaxis take paying riders onto highways.

Waymo began the first US driverless freeway rides for the public in the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and extended service to San Jose and its airport.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia Source

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

Driverless robotaxi service 2020

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

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