Delhi Delhi. Alphabet's self-driving unit Wemo said on Tuesday that its goal is to launch its entirely autonomous ride-having service in the US capital next year. Wommo gave Washington, D.C. in January In the coming weeks, they started carrying more vehicles as it has been working to start paid commercial services from next year.
Vemo said on Tuesday, “We will work closely with policy makers to formalize the legal structure required to drive without a person, as Washington, DC currently does not allow a completely autonomous operation.” The company is offering over 200,000 paid passenger trips every week in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin after making more than 4 million paid trips in the company's fully autonomous ride—-old service Wemo One, 2024. Its plan Atlanta and Miami and then Washington, D.C. To connect The American capital is home to federal registers and MPs.
The automakers and tech companies want the government to do more work to speed up the deployment of vehicles. Well said in October that it has completed a $ 5.6 billion funding round led by Google-parent alphabet, as he wants to expand his autonomous ride–hailing service despite the regulatory concerns about safety issues. In May, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation after receiving 22 reports about VEMO Robotaxis, which potentially demonstrated other “unpredictable behavior” including driving behavior or 17 collisions violating traffic safety laws.
NHTSA stated that many incidents included “clashes with clearly visible objects, which would expect a competent driver to escape.” In June last June, Wemo called back his 672 self-driving vehicles, when a driverless car in Phoenix collided with a wooden utility pole in Phoenix in May. Recall included a software update and “strong mapping updates and improvements” to improve the identification response of vehicles to the pole in recall. In February 2024, Wemo recalled 444 self-driving vehicles after two consecutive collisions in Arizona, stating that the software error may misinterpreted the speed of the automated vehicle towed vehicles due to the software error.
Vemo said on Tuesday that over 50 million rider-only miles (80.5 million km) collision figures, Wemo vehicles have been involved in 81 percent or 154 less causing accidents compared to the average human driver.