Waymo has been given the authority to map the road of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) through temporary permission. This is the first stage of Alphabet Company to unlock the advantage of the robot Rocks of Alphabet Company.
The temporary permits announced by Daniel Lurie, a San Francisco market on Monday evening, began on March 14.
Waymo vehicles do not work autonomously at the airport. Employees manually drive the vehicle to map the area. However, the permit indicates that the start of a step -by -step approach to Waymo is eventually operated commercially.
According to a statement by Nicole Gavel, a business development manager of Waymo, “This mapping is an important stage of providing a WAYMO service to millions of people who go to the city.”
This permit marks the processing time of Waymo, which was not allowed to map SFO in 2023. In addition, some strings are attached, including data sharing, depending on the language of this contract. Waymo will be included in the future contract with the San Francisco Airport Committee as it promotes a step -step approach that starts with mapping and then promotes autonomous tests with human safety operators, unmanned tests and commercial operation.
According to Techcrunch’s contract, Waymo must provide specific data after each mapping session for each vehicle. This “data interface contract” must track the vehicle when Waymo enters the airport, tracks the vehicle according to the contract, and provides time, geographic position, identification, trip identifier, transaction type, driver -based identifier and vehicle license plate number.
This contract also prohibits Waymo to move commercial products using autonomous driving cars. Waymo closed the autonomous truck program in 2023, and the company later dismantled its efforts to shuttle not packages. But language protects the future commercial delivery applications, which raised concerns among international team members.
This limit was enough to get the blessing of Peter Finn. Vice President of Teamsters Western Region.
FINN said in a statement, “We thank the Lurie market for his leadership of the parties and SFO directors Mike Nakornkhit and SFO Director Mike Nakornkhit.
According to the e -mail that I went to TechCrunch, Waymo made efforts to access pickup and dropoffs in SFO a year ago.
The approval process is long and requires a separate approval from the San Francisco Airport Committee. SFO spokesman Dug Yakel said last year that he could technically issue TechCrunch.
However, when Uber and Lyft first found access 10 years ago, it is expected to reflect the process of SFO officials. Currently, Waymo has signed a temporary access agreement to map the SFO airport road. Waymo eventually requires a ground transportation permits to operate on unlasted SFOs.
