Daniel Abreu Marques at The AV Market Strategist:
Waymo’s co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana made a striking prediction this week:
“You’re going to start seeing our cars in a lot of cities. If you think about our business in terms of scale, we’re currently giving hundreds of thousands of rides every week and, in all likelihood, by the end of next year, we will be offering around one million rides per week.”
If Waymo hits anything close to that run-rate, the U.S. ridehail map changes.
The SF Examiner reports that Waymo now operates over 2,000 commercial vehicles across the U.S., with ~800 deployed in the Bay Area alone, another ~500 in Los Angeles and ~400 in Phoenix.
We already know Washington DC, Miami, and New York City are in the pipeline, with data collection underway in Houston, Orlando, San Antonio, Las Vegas, and San Diego. The company has even extended its reach internationally to Japan, indicating global ambitions that stretch well beyond American cities.
More here.
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