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Feb 24 2026<\/p>\n

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A Waymo vehicle exits a charging lot on Jan. 15, 2026 in Austin, Texas.<\/div>\n
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Alphabet<\/a><\/span>-owned Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to some public passengers in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando, the company announced.<\/p>\n

With the multi-city expansion, Waymo is now operating its service in 10 U.S. cities, extending its lead in the North American driverless ride-hailing market. The Google sister company is aiming to lock in loyal riders and win over skeptics, including six in 10 U.S. drivers who said they were\u00a0fearful of driverless cars<\/a>, according to a 2025 survey by the American Automobile Association.<\/p>\n

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The expansion comes as rivals\u00a0Tesla<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/span>-owned Zoox and startups Waabi and Nuro work to bring their own commercial robotaxi services online to U.S. markets. Robotaxi leaders in Asia including Apollo Go, which is owned by Baidu, and publicly-traded WeRide have been snapping up marketshare overseas.<\/p>\n

Waymo said \u201cselect riders\u201d in the four cities who have downloaded the company\u2019s app will \u201creceive an invitation to take their first local rides.\u201d The company plans to invite more passengers on a rolling basis and make the service generally available in these markets by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s expansion \u201cdeepens our commitment in the states of Texas and Florida,\u201d Waymo said in its blog.<\/p>\n

In January, Waymo opened service to riders in\u00a0Miami<\/a>, and the company began serving\u00a0Austin<\/a>\u00a0riders last year in partnership with\u00a0Uber<\/a><\/span>. Additionally, Waymo operates in the Atlanta, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area markets.<\/p>\n

For the markets launched Tuesday, Waymo will use its fifth-generation driver system in its base model Jaguar I-PACE sedans. Earlier this month, the company\u00a0began<\/a>\u00a0offering employees and their guests rides in Waymo\u2019s sixth-generation driver system, built on Geely\u2019s base model Ojai electric cars, in California.<\/p>\n

The company in February also\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0that it raised a $16 billion funding round that valued the company at $126 billion, with Alphabet serving as the \u201cmajority investor.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of January, Waymo was operating just over 3,000 autonomous vehicles, according to filings with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The auto safety regulator has initiated\u00a0investigations<\/a>\u00a0into the way the company\u2019s vehicles behave around schools and school buses.<\/p>\n

The company has also faced criticism for how its vehicles behaved during a December\u00a0power outage<\/a>\u00a0in San Francisco in the middle of a storm. Waymo vehicles stopped in the middle of some roads and contributed to gridlock.<\/p>\n

In a letter<\/a>\u00a0to Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., this month, Waymo said it was already providing over 400,000 paid trips per week across the U.S. and had surpassed 20 million trips over the lifetime of its service.<\/p>\n

Markey has called on Waymo, and other AV developers, to be more transparent about the way their driverless vehicles rely on humans, namely \u201cremote assistants,\u201d to give their cars guidance from far-away customer service centers when the vehicles encounter difficult to navigate situations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source:Waymo opens robotaxi service to ‘select riders’ in 4 more U.S. cities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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