Waymo robotaxis have logged miles on highways with its workers and friends in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. | Supply: Waymo
Waymo this week introduced its robotaxis will start providing rides on freeways throughout the San Francisco Bay Space, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. The corporate is beginning with a choose variety of public riders, which it expects to develop within the coming months.
Waymo additionally expanded its service space within the San Francisco Bay Space. Its robotaxis now cowl San Francisco all the way in which right down to San Jose, together with curbside service at San Jose Mineta Worldwide Airport. Take a look at the service space within the map beneath.
Till now, Waymo has caught to deploying its robotaxis in city and suburban areas. Nevertheless, the firm mentioned it has completed in depth testing on freeways for greater than a yr. Waymo mentioned it additionally has plans to convey freeway capabilities to its different deployments in Austin and Atlanta sooner or later.
Within the U.S., the Waymo robotaxis have already drove greater than 100 million absolutely autonomous miles on public roads and supplied greater than 10 million paid rides. The corporate mentioned it’s now driving greater than 2 million absolutely autonomous miles and offering over 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 rides per week. The corporate at present operates companies in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin.
Waymo gained The Robotic Report‘s Robotic of the 12 months Award in 2025.
Waymo’s new service map within the San Francisco Bay Space. | Supply: Waymo
The place is Waymo coming subsequent?
Waymo has spent 2025 bringing its robotaxis to new cities. It introduced final week its coming to 3 extra cities: Las Vegas, San Diego, and Detroit. The corporate began driving in every metropolis with a blended fleet of its Jaguar I-PACE and Zeekr RT automobiles geared up with its sixth-generation Waymo Driver.
Waymo mentioned it’s going to start serving riders in San Diego subsequent yr and in Las Vegas in the summertime of 2026. The corporate didn’t share a timeline for when it’s going to start serving riders in Detroit.
The information comes just some weeks after Waymo shared its plans to convey its robotaxi companies to London in 2026. The corporate’s different worldwide plans embody Tokyo, the place it had deployed check automobiles to adapt its AV expertise to native visitors patterns and street options.
Along with London and Tokyo, Waymo has mentioned it intends to broaden to launch companies in Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, and Nashville within the coming years.
Whereas Waymo’s longtime rival Cruise is now not in operation, it nonetheless faces opponents resembling Zoox and Nuro, that are earlier of their deployment journeys. In 2024, Nuro expanded its capabilities utilizing zero-occupant automobiles with the Nuro Driver system, whereas Zoox grew its operations in California and Nevada.
