On Friday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles published a document detailing the list of newly approved repaints for Alphabet, Inc.
Areas where “testing and deployment of taxis” Waymo Driverless “will now be legally tolerated by the state, a continuous geography full of urban population centers connected to the centers of urban populations, cities, excurbs, and rural country among them. This includes chunks of (in alphabetical order) Alamera, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa, Santa, Santa, SONOMA, Ventura, and Yolo Counties.
The new map includes much of the state of California, and fills in the remainder of the Bay Area. It also adds greater coverage to the more populated parts of California. Most of Orange and San Diego Counties are now approved waymo states, for example, and each of those has millions of residents. If Waymo follows through on this approval by operating its service in all of these areas, it means that passengers can travel for hours in Waymo vehicles, and those who see them can take long day trips. Exban residents can take a Waymo ride to Los Angeles International Airport.
Famous expanses of California highways – and ways of fear-I may open up to taxi traffic that does not open. You can take the scenic route up the Pacific Coast Highway from San Diego to Malibu, or don’t drive and drive the first stretch of the OC by depressing the ride from Chino to Newport Beach.
Of course, the price of doing any of these things can be breathtaking. At an average of $ 11.22 per kilometer indicated by waymo’s price analysis from June, it would cost, by my calculation, $ 2,636 from san diego to malibu if the new pricing pattern The same ride would cost about $ 200 in Lyft driving a person or Uber, according to the Fare Estimator Site Rideguru.
Waymo says it has no specific plans to roll out its service to most of the newly approved locations, although it has its eyes on one of these locations. “We appreciate the DMV’s approval of our fully autonomous operations,” said a representative of Waymo told CBS News, who said San Diego, where we welcome our first passengers in mid-2026. “
