Context:
Waymo is deployed in San Francisco and Phoenix, accepting customers 24/7 throughout the city. It just started to do pickup and drop-offs at select Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport terminals and covers 225 sq miles in Phoenix.
Waymo is finishing up its 5-month tour of testing in LA in early March 2024.
Criteria:
Allow anyone with access to Waymo to take a ride on the highway by December 31st, 2024 (so excluding trusted testers, staff etc)
An announcement doesn't count, you have to be able to book a ride that uses a highway.
Some big trades coming in on the news that Waymo is testing on highways in SF for employees after 'successful testing of our autonomous vehicles on Phoenix freeways'.
Planned map of San Fran/LA coverage released today: https://x.com/space_colonist/status/1749623343316389896?s=20
Here's the letter to CPUC
They'll likely get highways approved within 4-8 weeks
@GabeGarboden It'll be interesting to see how quickly they roll it out after approval. They have always moved cautiously and they seem to be taking a slow and staggered rollout approach to their deployment on highways in Phoenix.
@BenLoveitt What's the difference between this market and your other identically named one: https://manifold.markets/BenLoveitt/will-waymo-work-on-highways-in-2024-637884af9b21
@DavidFWatson I was my first time making polls and I think I messed up the end date but otherwise, no difference apart from this one ends sooner (I don't know if I can leave it unresolved until 31st Decemeber and then payout).