Ontario government buys $28.9M...
Allowing autonomous vehicles like Waymo doesn't reduce congestion - it adds more cars to the streets. This is according to their competitor Uber.
Adding Waymo in Toronto will make the TTC and cycling AND DRIVING, worse.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/17/waymo-means-way-mo-cars-according-to-uber-docs
The prospect of driverless taxis in Toronto is not a promise, it's a threat. It's not about making streets safer, because distracted and drunk drivers are just going to kill people in these taxis too. They're already not taking a taxi, driver or not.
No the purpose is purely to more efficiently extract money out of communities and deliver it to investors. Toronto is the product being sold, not the people being served.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/waymo-ontario-self-driving-cars-9.7163535
