Autonomous Trucks
San Francisco, whose persistent fog and steep hills make for challenging driving at the best of times, has been at the center of a national conversation about driverless cars. Nalavade said future product updates will aim to address the anxiety still inspired by driverless cars, despite their frequent presence on San Francisco streets. But reports of such incidents on the streets of San Francisco have given public officials pause over the speed of AV proliferation. San Francisco, though monopolizing headlines with robotaxi political drama, isn’t the only city on Waymo’s vision board. “When you look at San Francisco from a business perspective, it’s actually a very lucrative market for rideshare,” Nalavade said.