Waymo doesn’t know when or if it will begin offering its driverless ride-hailing service in New Orleans, which already is up ...

However, the road tests don’t necessarily indicate that commercial services are being imminently planned in these locations.

The company got its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, which began in 2009 and put its first autonomous car on the road in 2015. The project rebranded as Waymo in 2016 under Google’s ...

Waymo just flipped the switch from supervised to unsupervised in Atlanta, where it aims to eventually launch a commercial robotaxi service later this year through an exclusive partnership with Uber.

The company had made an expensive bet on robot taxis, but the project was laden with legal problems and burning through cash. So Uber gave it away to another startup.

Waymo said in October that it had closed a $5.6 billion funding round led by Google-parent Alphabet, as it looks to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service.

Abrar Al-Heeti is a technology reporter for CNET, with an interest in phones, streaming, autonomous cars, internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. She's also worked ...