Google's self-driving car business-y MO
has way mo rather has launched its Robo
taxi service in the United States
however since the project is still in
its early days it won't be available to
everyone just yet only a few hundred
people who live in the suburbs of one of
Arizona's biggest cities will be able to
make use of the service at least for now
Kim your son has more way mo an arm of
Google parent company alphabet launched
a public self-driving car service in
Arizona on Wednesday the service dubbed
way mo one is similar to uber the
popular ride-sharing service
riders download an application and
provide their payment information the
company which began developing
driverless vehicles in 2009 aims to
provide the service to a few hundred
customers who live with enough 160
kilometres own near the Phoenix suburbs
I mean maybe the best thing for me was
that first ride get in sit down and
watch the steering wheel turn on its own
and and you know it's big grin on my
face the entire time the vehicle is not
entirely driverless as a human engineer
it will be behind the wheel but only to
intervene in case of emergency while
major challenges remain including
technical hurdles many believe such
services will be a game changer there's
there's no there's no hindrance that I
that I've noticed they they keep with
the speed of traffic they seem to know
where they're going
for the past decade way mo has logged
more than 60 million kilometers on
public roads in 25 cities across the
u.s. Wall Street analysts expect way
Mo's market value to jump from 50
billion to 175 billion US dollars once a
self-driving service is stabilized Jim
Morrison Arirang news
