2022 has not been a very good year for companies focused on developing driverless cars. Argo AIthe joint venture between Ford y Volkswagenfor example, announced its closure at the end of October, while the share price of another company focused on that business, Aurora Innovationshowed an 80% drop in the first ten months of the year.

But others have continued to move forward. This is the case of Waymo, the driverless vehicle company of Alphabet, Google's parent company, which already operates an autonomous cab service, Waymo One(see more), in the Phoenix metropolitan area and is preparing to do so in Los Angeles.in the Phoenix metropolitan area and is preparing to do so in Los Angeles. The process is not immediate. The company receives permission for testing and the first trips are made by employees, and then passed on to "trusted users", before making the service available to the public.

In addition to driverless cabs, Waymo is testing the use of driverless trucks(see more).. As of early October, the company had transported nearly 500 tons of Modelo and Corona beer bottles between the cities of Houston and Dallas under a pilot plan it has with bottler Constellation. Waymo Via's trucks were making a daily trip along the 350 kilometers that separate the two cities, carrying a human driver as a safety measure.