In short: Nashville traffic just got a new participant… and it doesn’t even have a driver.
According to WKRN, vehicles from Waymo are now operating fully driverless on streets around Nashville, meaning the human safety drivers who previously sat behind the wheel during testing have been removed. Over the past year, the cars had been mapping and learning the city with humans ready to take control, but now the company says the vehicles can navigate on their own using sensors, cameras, and AI.
Just what Nashville needed: robots joining the already chaotic mix of tourists, pedal taverns, aggressive merging on I-40, and that one guy who treats downtown like a NASCAR track. The driverless cars are part of Waymo’s bigger plan to expand autonomous ride-hailing to more cities, eventually letting people call one like a taxi through an app. The company says the technology has logged millions of autonomous miles and is designed to make roads safer, but for now the rollout mostly means Nashvillians may start spotting cars cruising around town with nobody in the driver’s seat.
Basically: the future has arrived in Music City… and it’s quietly driving itself through traffic while everyone else is still trying to figure out which lane turns into Broadway.
Read more from WKRN HERE.
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