How San Francisco Learned to Love Self-Driving Cars [View all]
On a recent windy day at the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center, a dozen tourists snapped photos of the famous view and then turned around to record videos of the vehicles that had brought them there: Waymo self-driving cars.
Across town, near San Francisco’s Ferry Building, half a dozen driverless cars pulled up to the curb in under an hour, dropping off and picking up a mix of locals and visitors.
Downtown in the city’s financial district, Waymo’s sleek white Jaguars decked out with whirling sensors and cameras are a constant presence, zooming down the streets one after another.
Self-driving cars have won hearts and minds in the tech-forward city after a rocky start a year and a half ago. Last summer, Waymo, which is owned by Google’s parent, Alphabet, was doing 10,000 paid rides a week. By May, the number jumped to 50,000. Now, it’s more than 100,000 across Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco, its largest market.
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