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Californians the kind of driv-
erless taxi service it’s al-
ready running across 100
square miles in Phoenix, ac-
cording to George Ivanov,
Waymo’s head of policy de-
velopment and regulatory
initiatives.
Without the ability to
charge fees, Ivanov told the
commission at an Oct. 22
hearing in San Francisco,
“any expansion would be dif-
ficult” in the company’s
home state.
In July, Waymo began a
commission-approved pilot
program to ferry Waymo and
Google employees and
guests through parts of Sili-
con Valley in driverless cars
for free.
Waymo doesn’t need fare
money to fund operations —
Alphabet is an enormous
profit machine and holds
more than $100 billion in
cash.
But Ivanov said experi-
menting with customer re-
sponse to different fare
structures is essential to
building out the robotaxi
business, which would be
like Uber or Lyft but without
a human driver.
Smaller companies hop-
ing to grab a piece of what
could grow into an industry
worth hundreds of billions of
dollars want to be able to
charge fares too.
“There are commercial
goals we are working
toward,” Bert Kaufman,
head of regulatory affairs for
Zoox, told the commission.
Based in San Francisco,
Zoox is developing a small
driverless vehicle with plans
to deploy initially in Las
Vegas.
Kaufman said it wants to
offer the service in California
but it can’t plan for deploy-
ment if it doesn’t know when
it might be able to charge
fares.
Experimenting with fare
structures at different times
of day and in different loca-
tions would help a company
know where and when to be-
gin offering a full-fledged
commercial service, Kauf-
man said at the Oct. 22 hear-
ing.
“Regulatory certainty” is
one reason the company
might start out in Nevada,

he said. It would help, he told

the commission, “knowing

that California is actually

open for business.”

In California, the state

Department of Motor Vehi-

cles regulates vehicle safety

and issues permits for driv-

erless vehicle testing and de-

ployment.

The CPUC, whose main

task is regulating utilities

such as Pacific Gas & Elec-

tric, also oversees commer-

cial transport services, in-

cluding bus companies, li-

mousine services, Uber and

Lyft. It’s up to the CPUC to

decide whether companies

can charge fares.

The commission de-

clined to make commission-

ers or staff members avail-

able for an interview. A com-

mission spokeswoman

pointed to a document is-

sued in June 2018 that set

rules for driverless vehicle

pilot programs in California.

“The free rides will iden-

tify the pilot program as dif-

ferent from ordinary trans-

portation,” the document

reads, “and, therefore, will

encourage the public to be

more mindful of their experi-

ence and provide critical

feedback to the commission

and the permit-holders.”

Other driverless compa-

nies at the hearing — which

included Cruise, Aurora,

Pony.ai and AutoX —

seemed baffled by the rea-

sons given for banning paid

driverless pilot programs.

“It’s very important we’re

able to charge for our service

not just for us but for the en-

tire industry in California,”

said Jewel Z. Li of AutoX,

which is developing autono-

mous technology and robo-

taxi logistics systems in the

U.S. and in China.

It’s important, she said,

to test “real-life sustainable

business models.”

If companies eschew Cal-

ifornia for more welcoming

states, the economic effect is

likely to be small. In any

case, it’s not the CPUC’s re-

sponsibility to consider

economic growth in the

state.

In the past, some experts

have lauded California’s

cautious approach to driver-

less regulation. But “Califor-

nia runs a risk of losing some

of its mantle of being the

center of driverless vehicle

innovation,” said Mike Ram-

sey, an automotive technol-

ogy analyst at Gartner.

Ramsey also is interested

in hearing more detail about

the commission’s objection

to charging fares.

“This is not a safety is-

sue,” he said. “This is about

the capability of a company

to recover some of the costs,

if not to profit” from technol-

ogy development.

Grayson Brulte, head of

driverless vehicle consult-

ants Brulte & Co., earlier

this year moved his head-

quarters to the Miami area

from Beverly Hills because,

he said, California’s bureau-

cracy is dragging its feet.

“The future was being de-

ployed in Florida, so we relo-

cated our company to Flor-

ida to be part of the future,”

he said. Florida’s driverless

regulations are either more

lax or more forward thinking

than California’s, depending

on whom you ask.

Advocates for blind peo-

ple and for small-business

owners asked the commis-

sion at the recent hearing to

allow fare charging.

Only one person sup-

ported the idea of banning

fares in pilot programs — a

representative of the San

Francisco Municipal Trans-

portation Agency, who said

the commission should first

ensure the public interest is

being served.

After the hearing, one

company representative

said the commission is tak-

ing too much time making

decisions. The person asked

not to be identified for fear of

antagonizing commission

members.

The CPUC issued its per-

mit rules in June 2018. The

October hearing, called a

“workshop,” was the first

public discussion held since

then.

The Times asked the

commission spokeswoman

if there is a timeline for ad-

dressing the industry’s fare-

ban complaints.

“As for next steps,” she

wrote in an email, “we have

committed to soliciting writ-

ten comments.”

A speed bump for robotaxi services

WAYMOsays it must charge fares to offer California the kind of driverless service it’s already running across 100 square miles in Phoenix.

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