WAYMO, TOYOTA STRIKE PARTNERSHIP TO BRING SELF-DRIVING TECH TO PERSONAL VEHICLES

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Waymo and Toyota have announced a preliminary partnership to explore bringing robotaxi technology to personally-owned vehicles. The partnership could result in Waymo incorporating Toyota's vehicles into its ride-hailing fleet. Waymo has previously worked with many other automakers, but most of these partnerships only resulted in the companies producing modified vehicles for testing or for Waymo to use in its fleets. The company now serves 250,000 paid rides per week through its commercial driverless ride-hailing services in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin regions.