Waymo says its autonomous vehicles are ready to drive its taxi service customers on the freeway.

The Google-backed autonomous vehicle company made the announcement Wednesday. Freeway service will debut first in the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.

Waymo previously began testing freeway driving under human supervision in Phoenix in early 2024.

"This has been a long time in the making,” said Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov, according to NBC News. "Freeway driving is one of those things that's very easy to learn but very hard to master when we’re talking about full autonomy without a human driver as a backup, and at scale. So, it took time to do it properly."

The company said in its announcement of freeway access that it would be available to a "growing number" of riders in th

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