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And now Waymo is announcing that it's launching a public

April 7, 2019 by Devin Jones

And now Waymo is announcing that it's launching a public beta pilot program in a small Arizona town.

In this way, Waymo's technology is part of a broader effort to improve public safety through testing and public service.

But this isn't to say there's nothing wrong with the way Waymo operates its vehicle. It does, however, have its limitations.

It's not the kind of thing that you'd expect to see in a city like Atlanta, for instance. There's no government oversight. No test facility. No one in charge. No oversight by the government. But it's one of the largest cities in the world to offer Uber and Lyft service.

And there are many other reasons for this. The city's transportation department didn't even respond to a request from Business Insider to provide a list of the city's laws and regulations governing self-driving cars.

Now, that's a shame. For years, the city's laws and regulations governing self-driving cars have been set up so that autonomous cars are limited to a few features like speed, lane shifts, and certain features of the road. But this is the first year these rules have even been updated. New policies have appeared in the past few months, to support the government's position that self-driving cars can be used to "improve safety," but not necessarily to make the car safe for human beings.