Waymo and Cruise have been granted the green light to charge for their driverless rides.
According to the intelligence provider website, Data AI, a substantial number of users have already downloaded the applications for Cruise and Waymo in the past week.
Both Waymo and Cruise can now offer rides to passengers with charges attached, which was not previously allowed. However, this change has come under scrutiny due to a series of incidents involving autonomous vehicles. In response to these incidents, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has requested a 50-percent reduction in the number of driverless vehicles operated by these companies.A passenger in a driverless Cruise vehicle suffered injuries on Thursday after the vehicle was struck by a San Francisco fire truck that was responding to an emergency call.
"We’re pleased that they’re reducing the fleet size temporarily, but there’s a lot of work to do and bottom line is we want them to adopt the approach that we have suggesting which is an incremental expansion based on these companies meeting performance that we all agree on," Peskin said.
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