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Detroit: Fiat chrysler and google for the first time will offer rides to the public in the self-driving vehicles they are building under an expanding partnership. Waymo, google’s self-driving car project, said on tuesday it’s adding 500 chrysler pacifica hybrid minivans to its self- driving vehicle fleet.
It will allow hundreds of people in the phoenix area to take rides in the vehicles so it can get feedback on the experience. Phoenix-area residents could apply on waymo’s website starting today. The vehicles will also pick up riders in chandler, tempe, mesa and gilbert, waymo said.
All of the vehicles will have waymo backup drivers who can take over in an emergency. Fiat chrysler and waymo have been partners since last spring, when they announced they would build 100 self-driving pacifica hybrids minivans.
Those vehicles were delivered to waymo in december. The companies have been testing the vehicles in arizona, california and michigan. Waymo began offering a small number of public rides in arizona two months ago before deciding to expand the program, a spokesman said.
Waymo created by google in 2009 has given rides to the public before in its hometown of mountain view, california.
In 2015, it let a blind man ride around austin, texas, in one of its completely self-driving pods. The phoenix program will be much larger in scale, and it will be the first to use the pacifica minivans. (Pti)
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