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Andrew J. Hawkins

Andrew J. Hawkins

Transportation editor

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    Andrew J. Hawkins
    Andrew J. Hawkins
    Waymo is feeling itself.

    We may start to see Waymo robotaxis in a lot more cities in the coming months, the company’s co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said on Hard Fork this week:

    You’re going to start seeing our cars in a lot of cities. If you think about our business in terms of scale, we’re currently giving hundreds of thousands of rides every week and, in all likelihood, by the end of next year, we will be offering around one million rides per week.

    Mawakana didn’t specify which cities, but we already know that the company plans to launch in Washington, DC, Miami, and New York City, and has been gathering data in Houston, Orlando, San Antonio, Las Vegas, San Diego, and even Japan.

    Andrew J. Hawkins
    Andrew J. Hawkins
    Everyone is freaking out about teens on e-bikes.

    I’m sure you’ve seen the posts on Facebooks complaining about scofflaw teenagers on high-powered electric bikes. But the real culprit here is the outdated laws that allow manufacturers to market what are essentially high-speed electric motorcycles and mopeds as “e-bikes” by putting pedals on them. Berm Peak just put out a great video that gets at the crux of this freakout.