{"id":139650,"date":"2026-02-20T04:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139650\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:16:21","slug":"waymo-faces-setback-as-new-york-withdraws-robotaxi-service-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139650\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo Faces Setback as New York Withdraws Robotaxi Service Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">New York Governor Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal that would have allowed for commercial robotaxi services outside New York City, a blow to Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Waymo as it seeks to aggressively expand its driverless fleet this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The proposal, which Hochul had <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.ny.gov\/state-of-the-state-book-2026\/#_Toc219064600\" title=\"Link to address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">included<\/a> in her budget proposal last month, would have allowed autonomous-vehicle companies such as Waymo to apply for permission to pilot their services without human operators in the vehicle. The decision to withdraw the plan was confirmed Thursday by the governor\u2019s office to Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Governor Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal that would have allowed for commercial robotaxi services outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37321,58982,3339,7472,426,9,24,55,54,56,9418,9416,4893,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-139650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","9":"tag-autonomous-vehicle","10":"tag-cities","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-kathy-hochul","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-orlando","19":"tag-san-antonio","20":"tag-taxi-drivers","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}