By Gus Saltonstall

A self-driving taxi car was spotted recently on the Upper West Side.

Waymo, an autonomous driving vehicle company, is already up and running across the United States, including in California, Texas, and Georgia, and now the driverless service has made its way to New York City.

On August 22, the city’s Mayor’s Office announced that the Department of Transportation has granted Waymo its first-ever permit to begin testing a limited number of the driverless vehicles as part of a pilot program in sections of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn.

There are currently eight autonomous vehicles in the pilot program covering Manhattan south of 112th Street and Downtown Brooklyn. During the pilot program, there will still be humans in the front seat to assess the performance of th

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