Forbes: Ahead Of Crucial CPUC Vote, Waymo, Disability Advocates Argue ‘Transformative Impact’ Of Autonomous Vehicle Tech

Late last month, members of Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company Waymo’s Accessibility Network—including the Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Self-Help for the Elderly, and United Cerebral Palsy, amongst others—wrote an open letter in which the coalition advocated for “[accelerating] the deployment” of autonomous vehicles in San Francisco. The letter opens with acknowledgment of the crisis on American roads, in which 43,000 people died in traffic collisions in 2022—the worst year for pedestrian deaths since 1981. Read it on Forbes.