Austin
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Waymo has announced public service 2025
Volkswagen is testing (commercial launch 2026?)
Zoox is testing
Waymo and Uber are announcing an expanded partnership to bring the Waymo One experience to Austin and Atlanta, only on the Uber app, beginning in early 2025. In these cities, Uber will manage and dispatch a fleet of Waymo’s fully autonomous, all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles, which will grow to hundreds of vehicles over time.
Source: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/09/waymo-and-uber-expand-partnership/
"In Austin, we are currently testing fully autonomous rides across 43 square miles of the city, encompassing the heart of downtown, Barton Hills, Riverside, East Austin, Hyde Park and more. At this stage of testing, we’re providing rides to Waymo employees before opening Waymo One to members of the public later this year. (2024)"
Source: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/03/scaling-waymo-one-safely-across-four-cities-this-year/
"Over the next few months, we’ll begin testing our fifth-generation driver, on the Jaguar I-PACE platform, across central and East Austin, including downtown, Rainey Street, Clarksville, Bouldin Creek, the Market District, Holly, and the Capitol."
Source: https://blog.waymo.com/2023/03/expanding-waymos-testing-to-Austin.html
"For the past few months, our team tested in and around downtown in our all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles to reacquaint the generalizable Waymo Driver with the city. With this early testing successfully concluded, we’ll begin an initial phase of operations this fall, with fully autonomous deployment and our first rides with the public in the months following. We intend for our Austin operations to be a truly useful service from the start, traversing a large portion of the city night and day. The Waymo Driver will travel to many popular locations, like the heart of downtown, Barton Hills, Riverside, East Austin, Hyde Park and more."
Source: https://waymo.com/blog/2023/08/waymo-one-heads-to-austin.html
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (VWGoA) is starting its first autonomous vehicle test program in Austin beginning in July 2023. The company will kick off its program with a batch of 10 all-electric ID. Buzz vehicles outfitted with an autonomous driving (AD) technology platform developed by the global Volkswagen Group in partnership with technology company Mobileye.
Over the next three years, VWGoA plans to grow its test fleet in Austin and also progressively expand testing operations to at least four more American cities. Building upon investments throughout this initial pilot, VWGoA anticipates a commercial launch of autonomous driving vehicles in Austin by 2026.
Source: https://media.vw.com/en-us/releases/1750
More US cities will follow in the run-up to a commercial launch in 2026
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23784813/vw-autonomous-vehicle-id-buzz-test-austin-mobileye
Zoox is turning up the heat in our journey to bring safe, comfortable robotaxi rides to the world. Next stop, two iconic American cities: Austin and Miami, where we’ll soon begin testing.
Miami: vibrant nightlife, groundbreaking art, sand and surf. Austin: incredible BBQ, live music, and a dynamic tech scene. In both, sunshine for days — but impressive storms, too. And yes, driving and traffic environments that some may consider challenging. But that’s the point. We’re here to learn, and Zoox is more than ready.
