{"id":245598,"date":"2025-10-28T04:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245598\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T04:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:58:12","slug":"waymo-in-talks-to-start-testing-self-driving-taxis-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245598\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo in talks to start testing self-driving taxis in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waymo is talking to local regulators about trialling the company\u2019s self-driving taxis in Australia, as the autonomous vehicle company begins lobbying governments around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Owned by Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet, Waymo describes itself as the \u201cworld\u2019s first autonomous ride-hailing service\u201d and says its vehicles have completed 10 million driverless rides in five US cities, including Los Angeles and Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the company announced plans to expand its robotaxi services internationally to Tokyo and London. This has prompted speculation in Australian tech circles that Sydney will be one of the next destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waymo is talking to local regulators about trialling the company\u2019s self-driving taxis in Australia, as the autonomous vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,113,71539,105,11523,76881],"class_list":{"0":"post-245598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-self-driving-cars","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uber","15":"tag-waymo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}