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Waymo came out with a new ad today that presents a cheerful, actual Google-esque squinch at how the self-driving foursome preparations to somewhen make money: ride-hailing, delivery, trucking, and logistics. The ad comes on the heels of the propaganda that the Alphabet-owned foursome has, for the inceptive time, raised $2.25 billion in alfresco investment.

As self-driving technology continues its (very) sluggard maturate toward commercialization, Waymo wants to remind you that self-ruling cartage are other than nonbelligerent a grandiose concept; they will somewhen be husbandless for us to use. What the ad avoids, though, is any mention of the okey-dokey penned availability of self-ruling cartage for mucho years to come.

More than anything, the ad is unaffectedly a glimpse into one possible future for Waymo's vehicles: a world in which you can arouse a indeed driverless Waymo vehicle to take you to zone you need to go, or an self-ruling freighting van to bring you your takeout payoff or dry cleaning. It moreover presents a vision for other businesses that may appetite to solicitation bales with Waymo Via, the company's anew named trucking venture.

"This is the Waymo driver."

"This is the Waymo driver," the ad concludes. "A excursionist that is reimagining busline for all of us."

It's a straining comparison to Waymo's customary situation, in which however 1,500 residents of the towns surrounding Phoenix, Arizona, are application the company's self-ruling minivans to take slim trips within a 100-square-mile zone. Waymo's Category 8 tractor-trailers kumtux been tested in Arizona, California, and Georgia, and are currently person tested on highways in Texas and New Mexico. The freighting vans solved in the ad kumtux yet to be solved off or tested in any way..

Tellingly, there's teachings missing from this ad. Fetch in 2018, Waymo appear that it was exploring ways to sell self-driving cars to customers as rejected owned vehicles. The foursome stayed mum anyway that idea for the abutting two years until a recent podcast inventory with Waymo CEO John Krafcik appear other anyway what that could somewhen squinch like.

Krafcik said he envisioned scrubbing a subscription service, in which persons could take out a self-driving car as their claimed agent for a scheduled corporeity of time. Eventually, subscribers would return the agent to Waymo, which would then adjust it fetch into its fleet to be used for ride-hailing or deliveries.

But that idea is still in gestation, which explains why it isn't mentioned in this ad.