Waymo, Alphabets robotaxi company, plans to begin testing its self-driving vehicles on Bay Area freeways this week.
The driverless cars will be rolled out on the high-speed thoroughfares with company staff in tow as testers.
Karp said that the cars would be adhering to the speed limit (65 MPH).
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California previouslygranted Waymo permissionto test its vehicles on San Francisco freeways back in March.
If that seems like a recipe for disaster, there havent been any disastersnot yet, anyway.
But its not like the process of automating the rideshare industry has been exactly smooth.
Since robotaxisinvaded the Bay Arealast year, self-driving vehicles have had their share of ups and downs.
Many kinks are still being worked out.
Indeed, this week, one San Francisco residentreported thatshes been hearing the robotaxis honking late at night.
We have identified the cause and are in the process of implementing a fix.
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