{"id":130088,"date":"2025-11-13T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/130088\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:05:07","slug":"waymo-taxis-on-us-freeways-are-ais-latest-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/130088\/","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":130089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,12809,114,12808,1657,81544,85,46,16632,33291,4674,125,1299,7740,80475],"class_list":{"0":"post-130088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-autonomous-vehicle","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-chief-executive-officer","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-freeways","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-latin-america","19":"tag-mark-elliot-zuckerberg","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-view","24":"tag-yann-lecun"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}