Three years after testing a handful of vehicles in Bellevue, self-driving car company Waymo plans to launch in the Seattle area.

San Francisco-based Waymo, owned by Google-parent Alphabet, announced Tuesday it’s expanding to two cities — Seattle and Denver. It expects to deliver vehicles to the Seattle area this week, Waymo spokesperson Sandy Karp said Tuesday.

Waymo has more than 1,500 vehicles across San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

In the Seattle area, the company will be testing Jaguar I-Pace SUVs and electric vehicles from Chinese automaker Zeekr.

But for those looking to eschew traditional rideshares and hail one of the company’s robotaxis, they’ll have to wait. Karp said once the vehicles arrive, they’ll begin a validation process.

They’ll begin with human

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