Waymo said it plans to launch a robotaxi service in Los Angeles, another sign that the Alphabet subsidiary is accelerating its commercial ramp up.
Waymo has had a presence in Los Angeles since 2019, periodically coming in to map neighborhoods, including downtown, Miracle Mile, Koreatown, Santa Monica, Westwood and West Hollywood.
The announcement Wednesday has a decidedly more commercial aim. Initially, more than a dozen Waymo autonomous vehicles will be in the Los Angeles and scale from there, according to Waymo’s new chief product officer Saswat Panigrahi, who most recently vice president of strategy, product management and data science.
The intent, he added, is that this will be a driverless robotaxi serv …
