Residents of Chandler, Arizona, will soon be able to skip waiting at bus stops for public transit and instead hop into driverless taxis.
Autonomous driving technology company Waymo announced on Sept. 18 that it had formed a partnership with public transportation technology company Via to introduce Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing services to Chandler’s Flex microtransit service.
The suburb southeast of Phoenix is the first city to assimilate Waymo’s ride-hailing service into its public transportation network, the companies said.
Daniel Ramot, co-founder and CEO of Via, said that public transportation riders and the local government agencies that manage them are too often at the tail end of newer transportation technologies such as autonomous driving vehicles….