Google's self-driving car business
wham-o has launched its Robo taxi
service in the United States however
since the project is still in its early
days it won't be available to everyone
just yet only a few hundred people who
live in the suburbs of one of Arizona's
bigger cities will be able to make use
of the service at least for now
Kim you-sun has more wham-o an arm of
Google parent company alphabet launched
a public self-driving car service in
Arizona on Wednesday the service dubbed
way no one is similar to uber the
popular ride-sharing service riders
download an application and provide
their payment information the company
which began developing driverless
vehicles in 2009 aims to provide the
service to a few hundred customers who
live with enough 160 kilometres own near
the Phoenix suburbs I mean maybe the
best thing for me was that first ride
get in sit down and watch the steering
wheel turn on its own and and you know
it's a big grin on my face the entire
time the vehicle is not entirely
driverless as a human engineer it will
be behind the wheel but only to
intervene in case of emergency while
major challenges remain including
technical hurdles many believe such
services will be a game changer
there's there's no there no hindrance
that I that I've noticed they they keep
with the speed of traffic they they seem
to know where they're going
for the past decade way more has logged
more than 60 million kilometers on
public roads in 25 cities across the
u.s. Wall Street analysts expect way
Mo's market value to jump from 50
billion to 175 billion US dollars once a
self-driving service is stabilized
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