According to Reuters, on December 5, Waymo, an autonomous driving subsidiary of Alphabet, said that it will extend the autonomous taxi service to Miami, Florida, USA to seek advantages in the increasingly competitive market. This will make Waymo’s autonomous taxi operating area more.
Waymo plans to start testing its Jaguar’s autonomous driving models in Miami next year to allow autonomous taxis to study around the city’s largest city in Florida, and then starts to provide autonomous taxis charging services through the Waymo One application in Miami ONE applications in 2026.
Waymo also announced a cooperative relationship with the MOOVE of Automotive Financing Corporation. It is reported that MOOVE will start managing Waymo’s fleet operations from Phoenix City, Arizona, and maintains autonomous driving taxis and charging infrastructure. At present, Waymo operates about 200 cars in Phoenix. Moove will also help manage Waymo’s autonomous taxis in Miami.
As part of cooperation with Uber with international mobile travel and distribution technology companies, Waymo also plans to put on its autonomous taxis to the U.S. Atlanta and Austin Market next year.
In addition, in November this year, Waymo has opened its autonomous taxi service Waymo One for all consumers in Los Angeles.
Although Waymo is still losing money, the company can currently provide more than 150,000 autonomous taxi services every week without any major traffic accidents. This performance enhances people’s confidence in Waymo, and believes that Waymo will continue to push its autonomous taxi to more markets and eventually generate stable profits. This expectation will help Waymo in October this year from Alphabet and other other The main investors raised $ 5.6 billion.
However, it is worth noting that at present, the fierce competition in the autonomous vehicle market, especially the competition from Cruise, a self -driving subsidiary of General Motors, ZOOX, Amazon, and Tesla, an American electric car manufacturer, are developing rapid development. The goal of establishing and maintaining market dominance in the field of autonomous driving technology constitutes a major challenge.