San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced that Waymo has received a permit to begin testing for the expected launch of robotaxi service to San Francisco International Airport.

In a statement Tuesday, the mayor's office said operations at SFO would be rolled out in three phases. First, robotaxis would be tested with a human driver, followed by without a human driver with Waymo and airport employees, then commercial operations would begin.

"We announced in March that we wanted visitors to be able to ride in a Waymo as soon as they arrived in San Francisco, and today, we are taking another important step to get there," Lurie said.

A subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, Waymo received permission to conduct digital mapping of airport roadways nearly six months ago.

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