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The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now


Alphabet’s self-driving car company launches what it hopes will be lucrative individual teen accounts—and maybe a whole lot of social change in the process.

They’re in Waymos, at least, now that the self-driving car company has begun to allow Arizona teenagers in the Phoenix area to ride by themselves through special “teen” accounts. Eventually, the teen service, open to 14- to 17-year-olds, could come to all of the markets in the US where Waymo operates its robot taxis, the company says: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, and soon, Miami and Washington, DC. Compared to what Guthrie remembered from her teen years, kids seemed in constant touch with their caregivers, and to almost expect surveillance, with location-based apps such as Life360 allowing adults to keep tabs on their whereabouts.

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