On Wednesday, Waymo shared that it's applied for a permit with the New York City Department of Transportation to drive autonomously in Manhattan, with a safety driver behind the wheel. In the ...

Waymo says that the next big city it’s going to plant autonomous ride-sharing in is New York. Unfortunately, Waymo’s business model isn’t exactly run of the mill, and that may take some time.

Waymo’s self-driving cars are already well-established in several cities. Waymo has more than 1,500 vehicles running more than 250,000 rides each week in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix and ...

Philadelphia is one of more than 10 cities where human autonomous-technology experts will be taking Waymos on summer “road trips,” allowing the cars “to get to know the city,” spokesperson Sandy Karp ...

Waymo applied for a permit to test autonomous vehicles with safety drivers in New York City. And it hopes it can change the state law to allow it to operate fully driverless.

New York State law currently does not allow for operating a vehicle without a human behind the wheel. The company said it is lobbying to change that state law.