Waymo and the acceleration of autonomous vehicles
The sightings are becoming more common — a Waymo out in the wild.
And more are on the way. Waymo and Lyft announced a joint partnership with rideshare liaison Flexdrive at an unveiling on Thursday, October 1. The partnership includes an 80,000-square-foot facility near the Nashville International Airport. Workers at the facility will clean, inspect, and repair autonomous vehicles on a 24/7 basis.
But the public sentiment around self-driving vehicles is still unclear. Many refuse to set foot in one, yet Waymo insists hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers have used them. In this episode…
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