Teenagers take Waymos now

They are children Good? They are in WaymosAt least, now Self -driving car The company started allowing Arizona teenagers in the Phoenix area to ride themselves through the “teenagers” accounts.

Ultimately, the service of teenagers, between the ages of 14 and 17, can come to all markets in the United States where Waymo runs their robot cars, the company says: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, Miami and Washington, DC. In a country where a lot of transportation system depends on accessing cars – and since many people, including young people who get a license for drivers, are limited to what they can do and where they can go because of it – the step on both promises and threat to rearrange the lives of adults.

According to Waymo, adolescents, and their parents, like this. The concept of robot cars still scares a lot, but Waymo says that its customers’ enthusiasm for their self -driving cars has a great relationship to heating fears.

The company tests the new service in the Arizona Metro area for two years, starting with the analysis of transport habits for a few families of the region in 2023. In the last stage, the researchers led by the Director of Waymo and Customer Research Naomi Guthie conducted an interview with teenagers who participated in one hundred hundred Flamehi. In interviews with these participants, Gutry was struck “through the escalating anxiety that we see in this generation.”

Youth leadership

Compared to what Gutry reminded of the teen LIFE360 Allow adults to keep a tab in their place. But their movements were also limited, through the schedules of these care providers, and whether they could ride. Teenagers who were interviewed had some “strange danger”, either for fear or strong preference against interaction with strangers. They were also tense about getting the steering wheel.

“Teenagers are afraid of driving,” says Gutry. Statistics at the country again, to some extent: approximately 5 percent of all American drivers were 19 or less In 2007In the year in which iPhone came out, according to federal data; By 2023 This has decreased to 3.7 percent.

Gutry says that the concerns of caregivers have appeared in the reactions and interviews in Waymo. Modern paternity and motherhood expectations have been emphasized, which includes at least a part -time driver playing for children to school and then post -school activities. They were also concerned that their children were lagging behind the steering wheel (as well as their least -contrary -to their children.) Three times more likely Be in a deadly accident of drivers 20 and above.

Waymo believes that there is dangerous money-“the suitability of the product market”, in the language of user experience expert

Go alone

Teen Waymo accounts are associated with adults, like adults, their accounts can be activated if Waymo policies, which prevent drug and alcohol use in the car, weapons, great chaos, and touch the steering wheel or brake in the car.

As with anyone who rides Waymo, teenagers who ride cars will be able to support customers around the clock throughout the week, including agents who can be contacted with a button compression. Teen Customer requests will be directed in adolescents automatically to the highest level for the company and the best trained agents. Waymo is also able to solve parents in contesting support calls.