Alphabet 旗下自动驾驶部门 Waymo 周二表示，计划于 2027 年在西班牙马德里地区推出全自动驾驶网约车服务，这是该公司在该国的首次部署。
Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous driving unit, plans to launch a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Spain's Madrid region in 2027, its first deployment in the country, it said on Tuesday.
Waymo 在声明中称，电动捷豹 I-PACE 车辆将在未来几天开始出现在马德里街头，由受过训练的专业人员驾驶，随后再开启自动驾驶运营。Waymo 将在西班牙交通总局（DGT）的自动驾驶汽车测试框架下运营。该公司表示，还计划今年在伦敦、2027 年在东京（与日本交通和 Go 合作，待监管批准）以及 2028 年在多伦多（与 Element Fleet Management 合作）推出服务。
Waymo 称，其车队已在 15 多个美国城市运营，每周完成超过 50 万单付费乘车，累计付费乘车已突破 2000 万单。据公司介绍，基于超过 4 亿公里（2.49 亿英里）自动驾驶里程汇编的安全数据显示，与人类驾驶员相比，涉及严重伤害或更糟后果的碰撞事故减少了 95%。西班牙交通总局上月向 WeRide（WRD.O）和 Uber（UBER.N）发放了首批国家级自动驾驶汽车测试许可，商业服务预计最快于今年年底在马德里启动。
Electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will begin appearing on Madrid streets in the coming days, with trained specialists behind the wheel before autonomous operations begin, Waymo said in a statement Waymo will operate under Spanish traffic agency DGT's autonomous vehicle testing framework The company said it also aims to launch in London this year, Tokyo in 2027 — with Nihon Kotsu and Go pending regulatory approval — and Toronto in 2028 with Element Fleet Management Its fleet, which already operates in more than 15 US cities, completes more than 500,000 paid rides per week and has surpassed 20 million cumulative paid rides, Waymo said According to the company, safety data compiled over more than 400 million km (249 million miles) of autonomous driving shows 95% fewer crashes involving serious injury or worse when compared with human drivers The DGT issued its first national permits for autonomous vehicle testing to WeRide (WRD.O) and Uber (UBER.N) last month, with commercial services expected to launch in Madrid by the end of this year