Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company Waymo might be planning to test a feature that will allow robotaxi riders to add a "tip" that will go to the

Waymo said it is launching fully driverless robotaxi rides for employees in Atlanta, an important step before the company opens the service up to members

Waymo, the self-driving division of Google parent Alphabet, announced Wednesday it plans to bring its autonomous taxis in San Diego this year.

Prominent Tesla Inc. investor Ross Gerber has highlighted significant challenges facing the electric vehicle maker's Full Self-Driving system while praising competitor Waymo's autonomous driving technology.

Waymo announced its first new deployment of 2025. It already has plans to launch another service in Miami later this year.

Waymo is sending autonomous vehicles to 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, the company shared exclusively with The Verge.

The self-driving taxi company Waymo launched in Los Angeles in November, bringing roughly 100 autonomous vehicles to neighborhoods from Santa Monica to West Hollywood.

In a report released on January 29, Brad Erickson from RBC Capital maintained a Buy rating on Alphabet Class A (GOOGL – Research Report), with

Waymo's approach involves deploying fewer than ten manually driven vehicles in each city for a couple of months.

Alphabet-owned Waymo plans to test its autonomous taxis in cities including Las Vegas and San Diego this year.

Waymo just flipped the switch from supervised to unsupervised in Atlanta, where it aims to eventually launch a commercial robotaxi service later this year through an exclusive partnership with Uber. But for now,