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The Grandma of Robotaxis Is Winning
Alphabet’s self-driving offshoot Waymo is the tortoise now beating Tesla’s hare.
Look who’s in the fast lane now.
Image credit: Waymo.
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Is Waymo good enough to be a verb? The Alphabet-owned robotaxi company recently announced that it plans to unleash its cars onto the Phoenix freeway soon. The news is a game changer for Waymo employees, some of whom use the cars to get to work. Until now, riders could only take surface streets to get to their destination. Adding the freeway into the mix has the potential to cut their commutes by half: