{"id":94851,"date":"2025-05-20T04:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/waymo-gets-ok-to-expand-robotaxi-service-into-more-of-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T04:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T04:23:58","slug":"waymo-gets-ok-to-expand-robotaxi-service-into-more-of-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/waymo-gets-ok-to-expand-robotaxi-service-into-more-of-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo gets OK to expand robotaxi service into more of Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The California Public Utilities Commission has approved Waymo\u2019s request to expand its commercial robotaxi service area, opening the door for the Alphabet company to bring its driverless ride-hailing vehicles into more communities south of San Francisco. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said in a post on X the approval <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Waymo\/status\/1924595146089496654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">won\u2019t change its plans<\/a> in the near term. Today, Waymo operates a commercial robotaxi service in all of San Francisco as well as parts of the Peninsula. It also provides driverless rides to paying customers throughout several Silicon Valley cities, including parts of Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale. In all, the company\u2019s service area is about 85 square miles covering San Francisco and Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re very excited to share that the CPUC has approved our application to operate our fully autonomous commercial ride-hailing service in the South Bay and nearly all of San Jose!<\/p>\n<p>While this won\u2019t change our operations in the near-term, we\u2019re looking forward to bringing the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Waymo (@Waymo) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Waymo\/status\/1924595146089496654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is also aiming to unlock <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/17\/waymos-milestone-sfo-mapping-permit-comes-with-strings-attached\/\">access to the San Francisco International Airport<\/a>, although those plans are on a much longer timeline. Waymo was given permission in March to map roadways at SFO via a temporary permit. Waymo vehicles will not operate autonomously in the airport; employees will manually drive the vehicles to map the area. But the permit signals the beginning of a phased approach to Waymo eventually operating commercially there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waymo provides 250,000 paid trips each week across its operations, which extends to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/28\/waymo-begins-testing-robotaxis-on-la-freeways\/\">Los Angeles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/08\/27\/waymo-expands-its-curbside-robotaxi-service-to-phoenix-airport\/\">Phoenix<\/a>, and more recently <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/04\/uber-users-in-austin-are-getting-matched-with-waymo-robotaxis\/\">Austin<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/19\/waymo-gets-ok-to-expand-robotaxi-service-into-more-of-silicon-valley\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Public Utilities Commission has approved Waymo\u2019s request to expand its commercial robotaxi service area, opening the door for the Alphabet company to bring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}