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And now Waymo is announcing that it's launching a public

April 7, 2019 by Devin Jones

And now Waymo is announcing that it's launching a public beta pilot program in a small Arizona town.

In this way, Waymo's technology is part of a broader effort to improve public safety through testing and public service.

But this isn't to say there's nothing wrong with the way Waymo operates its vehicle. It does, however, have its limitations.

It's not the kind of thing that you'd expect to see in a city like Atlanta, for instance. There's no government oversight. No test facility. No one in charge. No oversight by the government. But it's one of the largest cities in the world to offer Uber and Lyft service.

And there are many other reasons for this. The city's transportation department didn't even respond to a request from Business Insider to provide a list of the city's laws and regulations governing self-driving cars.

Now, that's a shame. For years, the city's laws and regulations governing self-driving cars have been set up so that autonomous cars are limited to a few features like speed, lane shifts, and certain features of the road. But this is the first year these rules have even been updated. New policies have appeared in the past few months, to support the government's position that self-driving cars can be used to "improve safety," but not necessarily to make the car safe for human beings.

This new policy, which has been announced by the city council, would require self-driving vehicles to have "comply with the safety, safety and operation of all city vehicles, including those in self-driving systems," and "shall not be used for the purpose of providing service, transportation or services or other functions for the benefit of passengers or employees."

And the city would be required to "enforce provisions in the existing rules for self-driving vehicles."

This new policy requires self-driving vehicles to have at least four seats, but then only one of them is fully autonomous. Uber and Lyft are offering a few free rides for self-driving vehicles for city-issued customers. In addition, they're offering a 50-mile Uber Ride program to make sure users of the vehicles can get around the city without having to worry about a human operator.

While the idea of requiring a full driverless car to be fully autonomous is an old idea in California, it has been gaining traction in the United States. While Google's self-driving car has been in the news for its potential to make public transportation safer by providing autonomous vehicles