{"id":136531,"date":"2025-11-12T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/136531\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:23:08","slug":"waymo-taxis-on-us-freeways-are-ais-latest-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/136531\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo Taxis on US Freeways Are AI&#8217;s Latest Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the capital expenditure of Bloomberg Opinion\u2019s opinions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/opinion-today?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">If you drove to work in San Francisco, Phoenix or Los Angeles today, you might have spotted something eerie while merging onto the freeway: the car next to you with no human behind the wheel. That\u2019s because this morning, Waymo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-12\/waymo-launches-driverless-robotaxis-on-freeways-in-first-for-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">unleashed<\/a> its driverless taxis onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/818552\/waymo-highway-california-arizona-robotaxi-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">the highway<\/a>, a first for the US. We\u2019ve sure come a long way from 4 a.m. parking lot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xvs0K1LG1ac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">honking standoffs<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the capital expenditure of Bloomberg Opinion\u2019s opinions. Sign up here. If you drove&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,15705,72,15704,114,79032,61,60,19144,61794,10679,80,303,11510,79033],"class_list":["post-136531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-autonomous-vehicle","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-china","tag-freeways","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latin-america","tag-mark-elliot-zuckerberg","tag-san-francisco","tag-technology","tag-united-kingdom","tag-view","tag-yann-lecun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}