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6 Waymo robotaxis block traffic to San Francisco freeway on-ramp
Waymo can operate on San Francisco freeways without a human driver, but the company is still only testing on freeways with a human driver in the front seat.
While routing back to Waymo’s city depot that evening, the first robotaxi in the lineup came across a road closure with traffic cones. Waymo told TechCrunch it is first prioritizing a safe and gradual scale of rider-only freeway operations in Arizona before advancing in California. Waymo told TechCrunch it immediately dispatched its Roadside Assistance team to manually retrieve the vehicles, and that the whole event lasted no longer than 30 minutes.
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