Ready for an AI taxi to do the I-4 driving for you? It should be possible next year. – Orlando Sentinel

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Central Florida residents may not have to drive Orlando’s congested roads much longer. The car can drive instead.

Residents will be able to hail a driverless robo-taxi when Waymo begins its service in Central Florida next year, adding The City Beautiful to the handful of regions in the nation where the self-driving vehicle subsidiary of Google operates.

Waymo is just one of many autonomous vehicle, or AV, options Central Florida residents soon will have the chance to choose. Advocates and local officials say these vehicles are the inevitable future of transportation, helping to decrease congestion and reduce accident rates.

Others are more cautious — and some are downright skeptical. Incidents across the country have ignited conversations ab