The firm mentioned that beginning June seventeenth, it could start accepting passengers additional south alongside the San Francisco Peninsula in cities like Brisbane, South San Francisco, San Bruno, Millbrae, and Burlingame. In Silicon Valley, riders in Palo Alto and Menlo Park will now be capable to hail of the Waymo’s driverless autos.
And in Los Angeles, Waymo is launching June 18th in neighborhoods like Playa del Rey, Ladera Heights, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and the whole thing of Sunset Boulevard. The firm briefly shut down its service in Los Angeles earlier this month after anti-ICE protesters set a number of robotaxis on fireplace.
Waymo mentioned that it was rising its borders in each cities by 80 sq. miles, bringing its whole protection space in California to 250 sq. miles. The firm lately reported reaching the milestone of 10 million paid rides, and is now serving 250,000 rides every week in all 4 of its markets: SF, LA, Austin, and Phoenix. For these maintaining observe, Waymo removed the waitlist and went public in San Francisco in June 2024 and Los Angeles in November 2024.
Waymo operates its ridehail service in California solely via its app, Waymo One. In Austin and shortly Atlanta, the corporate has opted to companion with Uber by making its autos solely accessible via that firm’s app.
The service map enlargement comes as the corporate is on the point of greater than double the scale of its car fleet. The Alphabet firm mentioned it at present has 1,500 Jaguar I-Pace SUVs working throughout its 4 foremost markets, and it plans on including 2,000 extra autos into 2026, for a complete fleet measurement of three,500.
