{"id":248158,"date":"2025-10-29T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248158\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:30:12","slug":"will-waymo-run-down-the-australian-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248158\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Waymo run down the Australian economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2025\/10\/28\/waymo-in-australia-self-driving-taxis-cars-uber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comes<\/a>!<\/p>\n<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here it is comes! Waymo is talking to local regulators about trialling the company\u2019s self-driving taxis in Australia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-248158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248158","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=248158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}