Waymo has been granted a permit to carry passengers in its autonomous vehicles in California:
more than 1,000 users. For context, the early rider program was introduced in April 2017 to give a vetted group of people the opportunity to summon one of Waymo's self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans. A portion of these participants migrated over to Waymo One, where they received 24/7 access to the autonomous service, but also began to be charged for the rides.
In May, Waymo revealed that it was partnering with Lyft in Arizona to give more consumers access to self-driving rides. Ten Waymo AVs were recently madethrough the Lyft app. This enables Waymo to get its tech in front of moreriders, especially those who may be wary of it. It also gives Waymo access to more rider-experience data and opens up potential revenue sharing opportunities with ride-hailing firms.
Waymo's latest expansion efforts — including the permit that could help the company expand its commercial service to California — are further highlighted against the backdrop of GM's Cruise struggles.
In fact, Cruise has fallen significantly behind on its early ambitions of debuting an autonomous ride-hailing service by 2018, later pushed to 2019. Several months ago, Cruise's tech was reportedly getting in a collision every 450 miles, still far from the goal of having a collision once in every 1,000 miles by the end of 2018.
As Cruise is considered Waymo's closest rival in the US in terms of technical expertise, this bodes well for the Alphabet-backed company. It should continue to capitalize on its lead.1. Sign up for the Transportation & Logistics Briefing to get it delivered to your inbox 4x a week. >>pass to Business Insider Intelligence and gain immediate access to the Transportation & Logistics Briefing, plus more than 250 other expertly researched reports.
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