SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Waymo is hitting the highway. The company said starting Wednesday its robotaxis — already a common sight on some city streets — are expanding their routes to freeways and interstates around San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix. And in the Bay Area, riders can now get dropped off or picked up curbside in driverless cars at San Jose Mineta International Airport. Other regions will get highway service soon, Waymo said.

The highway rollout will be gradual in LA, where Waymo cars with nobody in the driver's seats are increasingly common downtown and in many residential neighborhoods. But around San Francisco as of this week, the expansion encompasses the entire peninsula to the south of the city, including Silicon Valley hot spots like Palo Alto and Mountain View. Passen

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