Waymo, an autonomous rideshare service backed by Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., plans to launch operations in Atlanta, Miami, and Washington D.C. in the coming years.
Waymo's technology has shown improvements, with significantly fewer airbag deployment crashes, injury-causing crashes, and police-reported crashes compared to human drivers in the same distance.
Despite its progress, Waymo's autonomous fleet received 589 tickets in San Francisco last year, primarily for traffic violations such as dropping off passengers in prohibited zones.
Waymo's expansion to congested cities like Washington D.C. poses new challenges, but their Level 4 self-driving technology puts them ahead of Tesla's autonomous programs.