Is Waymo ready for winter?

During a caller all-hands meeting, Waymo's main wintertime upwind expert laid it retired for each the company's engineers and merchandise managers: if Waymo wants to grow to caller cities and caller markets, it's robotaxis volition request to beryllium capable to confidently and safely grip the snow.

In its archetypal fewer years of operation, Waymo has strategically stuck to cities with warmer, drier climates - places similar Phoenix, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Austin. But arsenic it eyes a slate of East Coast cities, including Boston, New York City, and Washington, DC, for the adjacent signifier of its expansion, its abilities to grip much adverse upwind volition go a important test.

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