Waymo is bringing fully autonomous driving to five more cities

The robotaxi company is removing the human driver from its pilot programs across two states—the latest sign of its increasing ability to scale.

Before Waymo was Waymo, it was Google’s self-driving car project. Starting in 2009, the effort spent many years in test mode—with humans in the driver’s seats ready to take over, just in case—that its vision of vehicular autonomy often felt far from practical reality.