What's new
Every launch and expansion we've logged. The market moves almost weekly, so this is the part we keep most current. Last checked June 2026.
- Sep 24, 2026
Waymo's safety data now covers 270 million driverless miles
Waymo updated its safety numbers through June 2026: over 270 million fully autonomous miles across Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco, with 95% fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 82% fewer injury crashes than human drivers on the same roads, and an estimated 841 injury-causing crashes prevented. Pedestrian, cyclist and motorcyclist injury crashes were down 93%, 86% and 82%. These are Waymo's own figures, benchmarked against its own human-driver model; the methodology is public on its safety hub, and our safety page and claims ledger now carry the new numbers.
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- Sep 22, 2026
Waymo pays you a bus fare for connecting to transit
Waymo introduced transit rewards in the San Francisco Bay Area: link a Visa card in the Waymo app, take a Waymo and tap onto public transit within two hours of each other, and you get $2.85 in Waymo Cash, the price of a San Francisco bus fare. It works across the 27 Bay Area agencies that accept contactless Visa, including a new Caltrain partnership. Employees first, then the public over the coming weeks, with more cities planned.
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- Sep 17, 2026
Waymo is coming to Singapore, with a 2028 target
Waymo and Singapore's Land Transport Authority said Waymo will become the city-state's newest autonomous vehicle operator. Jaguar I-PACE vehicles arrive in the coming months, 2027 is a manual-driving readiness phase to adapt the system to local roads, and a fully driverless commercial service via the Waymo app is targeted for 2028. It joins Pony.ai and WeRide, which today carry the public only in the Punggol estate.
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- Sep 15, 2026
Waymo lines up Allianz for its European rollout
Waymo said it is working with Allianz Partners to build the insurance, claims, and safety-research foundation it needs to operate in Europe, starting with its planned launches in London and Munich. The deal covers fleet insurance and liability coverage, digital claims handling, and joint safety research with the Allianz Center for Technology.
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- Sep 14, 2026
Waymo opens Las Vegas to the public
Waymo began fully driverless public rides in Las Vegas, covering about 24 square miles from Boulder Junction through the Strip to Sahara Avenue and out to Spring Valley and Winchester. The company said more than 100,000 people had signed up during the testing phase. Las Vegas now has two live robotaxi services: Waymo and Zoox, which has charged fares here since August.
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- Sep 14, 2026
Waymo, Nihon Kotsu and GO commit to a 2027 Tokyo launch
Waymo, Japanese taxi operator Nihon Kotsu and the GO ride-hailing app agreed to prepare a fully unmanned commercial service in Tokyo, targeting first public rides in 2027 and scaling to around 100 vehicles, pending regulatory approval. Waymo has been testing in Tokyo since 2025 with a Nihon Kotsu crew aboard; rides would be booked through the GO and Waymo apps.
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- Sep 10, 2026
Pony.ai drops the safety operator in Zagreb and charges fares in Doha
Two steps up for Pony.ai outside China, both from its own interim report. In Zagreb, with partner Verne, it began passenger test rides with no onboard safety operator on public roads, along a 22 km route linking Verne's headquarters, a business district and Zagreb Airport; the service, running since April, has passed 200,000 km and several thousand rides. In Doha, its service with Mowasalat is now commercial and fare-charging through the Karwa app, covering key districts, tourist spots and a Hamad International Airport connection. Doha moves from testing to live on our map.
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- Sep 9, 2026
Waymo rides now show up in the Lyft app in Nashville
Lyft said Nashville riders can now be matched with a Waymo when they request a Lyft, at no extra cost, making it the first metro where Waymo works through both the Waymo and Lyft apps. Lyft's Flexdrive unit runs the fleet and opens an 80,000 sq ft depot in October.
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- Sep 5, 2026
The map goes global: Gulf, Europe, and Asia robotaxis added
We expanded coverage beyond the US and China with primary-sourced entries: WeRide and Apollo Go running fully driverless in Dubai and Abu Dhabi (mostly via Uber and their own apps), WeRide with a safety operator in Riyadh, Pony.ai carrying the public in Singapore and Zagreb, plus new testing markets in Luxembourg, eastern Switzerland, Seoul, and Doha. Waymo's London and Tokyo remain in testing, with safety crews aboard and no public rides yet.
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- Sep 3, 2026
NHTSA audits the Cybercab's safety self-certification
The same day Tesla put the Cybercab into service in Austin, US regulators opened an audit query into Tesla's self-certification that the car, which has no steering wheel or pedals, meets all federal motor-vehicle safety standards. NHTSA says it will examine the technical basis Tesla used to certify a vehicle built without human controls.
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- Sep 3, 2026
Tesla's Cybercab starts carrying riders in Austin
Tesla launched the Cybercab, its purpose-built two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, at an event in Austin, and it is now hailable through the Robotaxi app in limited parts of the city, alongside the Model Y robotaxis already running there. The Cybercab relies entirely on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software.
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- Sep 1, 2026
Zoox adds Houston and San Diego to its testing map
Amazon's Zoox said it is expanding testing to Houston and San Diego, with safety operators aboard, as it maps new cities ahead of any paid service. Zoox charges fares only in Las Vegas so far, with a free early-rider service in San Francisco.
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- Sep 1, 2026
Waymo opens San Diego, Tampa, and Denver to the public
Waymo dropped the employees-only phase in San Diego, Tampa, and Denver, so anyone can now hail a fully driverless ride in all three. Denver is Waymo's first market in Colorado, and it takes Waymo to 14 US cities carrying public riders.
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- Aug 25, 2026
Waymo is coming to Germany, starting with Munich
Waymo said it will bring its robotaxi to Munich, its first market in the European Union. It has set up Waymo Germany GmbH and begins with manual mapping drives and testing with specialists behind the wheel, aiming to open public rides toward the end of 2027. Bavarian and federal officials welcomed the move.
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- Aug 20, 2026
Nevada clears Tesla for robotaxis, but the permit starts at ten cars
The Nevada Transportation Authority granted Tesla a commercial robotaxi permit for Clark County, home to Las Vegas. Tesla applied for up to 5,000 vehicles, and the headlines ran with that number, but the order the NTA actually issued is an interim one capping Tesla at ten fully autonomous vehicles, on the Las Vegas Strip corridor and roads posted no higher than 45 mph. The interim limits can be raised later.
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- Aug 14, 2026
Pony.ai and Uber plan 2,000-plus robotaxis across five European cities
Pony.ai expanded its collaboration with Uber to deploy more than 2,000 robotaxis across five cities in Europe, growing from the existing Zagreb service (coming soon to the Uber app) to four more cities it has not yet named, with Middle East deployments also in the plan. Pony supplies the driverless technology and operations; Uber supplies booking, payment and customer service. The two first paired up in May 2025.
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- Aug 10, 2026
Zoox turns on the meter in Las Vegas, its first paid rides
Zoox began charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas, its first commercial service and the first time a controls-free robotaxi, one with no steering wheel or pedals, has carried paying passengers in the US. Rides there had been free until now. It follows the federal exemption Zoox won in July, and the company says San Francisco and other cities come next.
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- Aug 4, 2026
Waymo opens Dallas to everyone
Waymo dropped the waitlist in Dallas, so anyone can now hail a fully autonomous ride there without an invitation. Waymo says it carried nearly 150,000 riders from its Dallas interest list before opening the doors to all.
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- Jul 30, 2026
Zoox wins the first federal OK to charge for a steering-wheel-free robotaxi
NHTSA granted Zoox a commercial exemption from eight federal vehicle safety standards written for human-driven cars, the first time a purpose-built robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals has been cleared to charge fares in the US. The exemption covers up to 2,500 vehicles a year for two years. Zoox, which already runs free rides in Las Vegas, says paid service there comes first, with San Francisco and other cities to follow.
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- Jul 28, 2026
Baidu's Apollo Go starts testing in London with Lyft
Apollo Go, Baidu's robotaxi arm, began road-testing its purpose-built RT6 cars in London through Freenow by Lyft, starting in the borough of Brent with safety operators aboard. It puts a second operator on London streets after Waymo, and marks a Chinese robotaxi company pushing into a Western market. Public rides are planned for 2027, pending UK approval.
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- Jul 23, 2026
Apollo Go gets Hong Kong's first operator-free robotaxi permit
Hong Kong's Transport Department gave Apollo Go, Baidu's robotaxi arm, the city's first fully driverless trial permit, letting it test with no safety operator in the car. Apollo Go has run trials in Hong Kong since a 2024 pilot licence, starting around the airport. It's a milestone in a right-hand-drive market, and it came days before Apollo Go began London testing with Lyft.
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- Jul 22, 2026
Tesla starts Cybercab production and names its robotaxi cities
In its Q2 results Tesla said Cybercab, the purpose-built robotaxi with no steering wheel, entered production at Gigafactory Texas, with engineering test drives on public roads and employee rides on the Texas campus. Tesla also published a coverage table for the first time: unsupervised service in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, a safety-driver service in the San Francisco Bay Area, and preparations underway in Phoenix and Las Vegas.
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- Jul 22, 2026
Alphabet's results skip Waymo's ride count, and the losses grow
Alphabet's Q2 release didn't mention Waymo once, so there's no updated rides-per-week figure from the company itself. What it does show is Other Bets, the segment whose revenue comes mostly from autonomous transport, roughly flat at $382M against $373M a year earlier, while its operating loss widened to $1.80B from $1.25B. Spending is climbing faster than the revenue it produces.
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- Jul 13, 2026
Washington DC weighs its first robotaxi law
The DC Council held a public hearing on the Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Authorization Amendment Act of 2026 (B26-0684), introduced by councilmember Charles Allen. It would let robotaxis carry paying passengers in the District for the first time, which today allows only testing. Rideshare-driver unions testified against it over lost work; disability advocates backed it for independence and access.
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- Jul 8, 2026
US safety regulator warns robotaxis over first responders
NHTSA told driverless-car makers that blocking ambulances and firefighters, or failing to recognize flashing lights and flares, is a danger to the public, and gave them until the end of July to bring solutions. The unnamed target points at the largest fleet, Waymo.
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- Jul 8, 2026
Momenta, a GM-backed AV firm, goes public in Hong Kong
China's Momenta, backed by GM, Toyota, Mercedes and Tencent, listed in Hong Kong at around a $9B valuation, raising about $752M to push its robotaxi commercialization. Notable that GM backs it even after shutting its own Cruise robotaxi.
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- Jul 8, 2026
Waymo turns on driverless rides in four cities at once
Waymo went fully driverless in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa, and Denver simultaneously, a jump from its usual city-by-city pace. It's employees-first, with public access coming, as Waymo pushes toward a million rides a week.
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- Jul 5, 2026
Uber pushes to buy Delivery Hero
Uber, the app that resells robotaxis in several cities, built a roughly 19.5% stake in Germany's Delivery Hero and floated a takeover worth about €10B, pausing its Uber Eats Europe expansion to chase it. A food-delivery move, but a sign of the mobility super-app forming around the AV rides Uber aggregates.
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- Jul 3, 2026
Tesla Robotaxi launches in Miami
Tesla began driverless rides in a small zone of western Miami-Dade, its first robotaxi market outside Texas and California.
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- Jun 26, 2026
US regulator moves to drop the brake-pedal rule for driverless cars
NHTSA proposed updating Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 135 so that vehicles built to never have a human driver, such as Zoox's robotaxi and Tesla's Cybercab, would no longer need hand or foot brake controls. They would still have to meet the same stopping-distance targets through other tests, and cars that keep manual controls are unaffected. The public comment window ran through late July 2026.
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- Jun 25, 2026
Waymo opens Nashville to everyone
Waymo dropped the waitlist in Nashville, making it a fully public market that anyone can ride without an invitation.
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- Jun 24, 2026
Zoox refreshes its robotaxi interior before charging for rides
Amazon's Zoox revealed a redesigned cabin with more padding, a clearer screen, and exterior two-way audio, as it prepares to start paid service later in 2026.
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- Jun 16, 2026
Mobileye plans its own robotaxi service for 2027
The self-driving supplier said it will run its own driverless ride-hailing service in a major US city in 2027, starting with about 100 vehicles.
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- Jun 3, 2026
Tesla Robotaxi opens across the entire Austin metro
Tesla flipped on unsupervised Robotaxi service across ~245 sq mi of Central Texas, its fifth and largest Austin expansion, though still with only ~20 active vehicles.
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- May 13, 2026
Waymo expands coverage by 20%+ across 11 cities
Waymo grew its combined service area by more than 1,400 square miles, larger than Rhode Island.
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- Apr 28, 2026
California clears driverless heavy trucks and adds roadside enforcement
New state rules lifted the ban on self-driving trucks over 10,001 lbs, and from July 1, 2026, police can issue a Notice of Noncompliance to an AV maker after a traffic violation.
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- Apr 14, 2026
Waymo starts testing in London
Waymo began driving in London with safety specialists behind the wheel, its first European test, as it prepares for commercial service in 2026.
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- Mar 24, 2026
Zoox brings its robotaxis to Austin and Miami
Zoox began testing in two new cities alongside its Las Vegas and San Francisco operations, still with free rides.
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- Feb 24, 2026
Waymo reaches 10 US cities
Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando joined, taking Waymo to 10 live metros and ~500k paid rides per week.
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