Waymo ta sanar a yau cewa a hukumance ta fara gwajin motocinta masu cin gashin kansu akan hanyoyin jama'a a birnin Landan, alamar wani muhimmin mataki na ƙaddamar da sabis na robotaxi na kasuwanci a babban birnin Birtaniyya a ƙarshen wannan shekara.
Kamfanin mallakar Alphabet yana aiki don wannan lokacin tsawon watanni. A watan Oktoba, Waymo ya bayyana shirinsa na fara tuki a kan hanyoyin jama'a na London. Bayan matakin farko na tuƙi da hannu don taswirar birnin, gwajin yanzu ya shiga mataki mai cin gashin kansa. A wannan mataki, kusan 100 Motocin Jaguar I-Pace masu amfani da wutar lantarki tare da tsarin tuki mai sarrafa kansa na ƙarni na biyar na Waymo suna shiga cikin gwaje-gwajen., kowanne tare da ma'aikacin lafiyar ɗan adam a bayan motar. Gwajin ya ƙunshi yanki da yawa 100 murabba'in mil a fadin tsakiyar London.
Waymo yace: “Dole ne gwamnati ta fara kammala ka'idojin shirye-shiryen gwaji kafin mu iya yin aiki cikakke. Za mu yi aiki kafada da kafada da masu mulki don tabbatar da cewa sabis ɗinmu ya isa ga yawancin mutanen London.”
Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO na Waymo, ya rubuta a kan LinkedIn cewa ainihin tuƙin AI na kamfanin yana nuna ƙarfin haɓakawa mai ƙarfi. “Ana ci gaba da gwajin cin gashin kai yanzu tare da ƙwararrun ƙwararru a bayan motar yayin da muke ƙware ƙwararrun gida da kuma tabbatar da aiki akan hanyoyin Burtaniya - muhimmin mataki na tura mahaya kawai.,” Yace.
Don tallafawa fadada kasuwancin sa, Waymo yana ɗaukar hayar gida sosai kuma yana shirin kafa cibiyoyin sabis na abin hawa masu cin gashin kansu da yawa a cikin London. Har ila yau, kamfanin yana aiki tare da sabis na gaggawa na gida yayin da yake gina harsashi don fadada kasuwancinsa a Turai.
Bibiyar dabarar turawa ta Waymo, A karshe kamfanin zai gudanar da gwajin babu direba tare da baiwa ma’aikatansa damar gwada wannan sabis kafin budewa ga jama’a. Shirinsa na ƙaddamar da sabis a cikin 2026 a ƙarshe ya dogara ga gwamnatin Burtaniya ta kammala aikin amincewa da irin waɗannan ayyuka.
Musamman, Waymo tuni yana da alaƙa da Burtaniya: A ciki 2019, Kamfanin ya samu Latent Logic, Wani farawa a Burtaniya ya fito daga sashen kimiyyar kwamfuta na Jami'ar Oxford wanda ke amfani da nau'in koyon injin da ake kira kwaikwayo na koya don sanya kwaikwaiyon mota mai tuka kai ya fi dacewa.. Waymo ya ƙaddamar da cibiyar injiniya a Oxford a matsayin wani ɓangare na sayan.
Waymo a halin yanzu yana da fiye da 3,000 robotaxis a cikin jiragensa na duniya, tare da gudanar da harkokin kasuwanci 11 garuruwa ciki har da Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, da San Francisco Bay Area. London na shirin zama kasuwar kasuwancin duniya ta farko ta Waymo (Hakanan kamfanin yana gwaji a Tokyo). Musamman, a London, Waymo zai fuskanci gasa daga farkon fasahar tuki mai cin gashin kansa na gida Wayve da Uber, dukkansu kuma suna shirin kaddamar da ayyukan tasi marasa matuki a cikin birnin.