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You may have spotted Waymo's self-driving cars across Houston since the company began testing in the city earlier this year . Now, the autonomous ride-hailing service is preparing to take off the training wheels.

Waymo, which operates in Austin and some other U.S. cities, announced Tuesday that it will “soon begin fully autonomous driving” in Houston as well as in Dallas and San Antonio. The company has been conducting autonomous test-driving in the latter Texas cities with the supervision of humans.

“We’ll transition from supervised autonomous testing with a human at the wheel, to fully autonomous testing with no one at the wheel,” a Waymo spokesperson told Houston Public Media . “Employees will take rides as we continue validating the technology on Houston stre

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