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Waymo is temporarily shutting fuzz some of its robotaxi services in Arizona, just days hind The Border reported that its contracted safety drivers were concedable increasingly panicky anyway picking up passengers surrounded the growing coronavirus pandemic. Cartage with safety drivers will no maxi be on the seaport in greater Phoenix, Arizona, while completely driverless versions will exist to shuttle passengers effectually in increasingly locked numbers.

Waymo says it has stopped running its prototype egalitarian cartage in California, except will keep testing driverless trucks and operating its limited delivery song-and-dance pilot program..

"In the interest of the healthfulness and safety of our riders and the sectional Waymo community, we're pausing our Waymo One song-and-dance with trained drivers in Busline Phoenix for now as we exist to watch COVID-19 developments," the convergence tweeted, referencing the distress that's caused by the atypical coronavirus.

Like picked companies testing self-driving cars, Waymo staffs plenteous of its prototype egalitarian cartage with so-called safety drivers, who are there in the event that the car encounters a embattled situation that it can't handle. These drivers are not full-time Waymo. employees, though. They're energetic by a French transit convergence conscript Transdev.

As The Verge has superiority reported, these Transdev execs have complained of poor healthfulness perks and paltry paid leave behavior -- things that have only grown-up increasingly important as the world comes to grips with a pandemic. Last week, while Waymo "strongly" encouraged full-time execs after "business critical" roles to assignment from home, the contract drivers were leftward feeling exposed.

1/5 In the interest of the healthfulness and safety of our riders and the sectional Waymo community, we're pausing our Waymo One song-and-dance with trained drivers in Busline Phoenix for now as we exist to watch COVID-19 developments.

-- Waymo (@Waymo) March 17, 2020

"It feels like the drivers are treated like spare category citizens, overtrusting to report to assignment and serve 'hails' while the full-time execs are required to assignment from home to stay safe," one Waymo safety slaves told The Verge.

At the time, the COO of Transdev Discretional Services said in an email to drivers that the "current situation [in Arizona] does not justify suspending the public-hailing service."