From the blog:

Waymo is getting you to even more places. Over the next week, we’re scaling in five cities and adding nearly 250 square miles of territory across Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Want to hail a ride? Here are all the new places we’ll take you to:

• In LA we're extending down the coast to the South Bay, adding Torrance.
• People in Nashville can travel further south, like to the zoo.
• Over in Orlando, we’re nearly doubling our coverage area in the east, including enhanced service downtown.
• In San Diego, we’re headed north to La Jolla.
• For the San Francisco Bay Area, we’re getting you to more areas in the south, including a new BART connection at Berryessa Station.

This topic has been raised quite a bit in this sub recently, and perhaps some clarity is in order.

Some commenters have made claims that only Tesla provides “driverless miles” which include deadhead miles (i.e. miles with no passengers), while other AV companies such as Waymo provide “rider only miles” with a paying passenger.

It turns out that this is not correct. Waymo does in fact include miles with no passengers in their “rider only data”.

In Waymo’s Safety Report found here, they do in fact define:

“rider only miles” as “miles that Waymo has driven without a human driver”. No mention is made of passengers.

Further, in the FAQ section of the same report they state that their “rider only miles” data includes miles "while the vehicle is traveling to or from a depot to charge or between serving riders".

Conclusion: Waymo’s “rider only miles” do in fact include miles with no rider.

Hopefully this provides some clarity in our ongoing discussions about AV companies, and their reporting metrics.

I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. How can they launch this? https://x.com/ethanmckanna/status/2115263351643111463?a=zbJM6xMbRBmuhwej4Uc&s=19

Also, how's the coverage/routing in Austin? Does it have weird detours and routes as well?

About a month ago Wayve started testing in London, but I can't find any videos of regular people outside the press riding it. Can anyone link me to some?

WeRide next step - launching their global insurance partnership program to support autonomous driving expansion. The goal is to expand the program to more international markets and insurance partners.