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Robotaxis as public transit? Waymo thinks so

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-24 18:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Waymo is teaming up with tech transit startup Via to integrate its autonomous vehicles into city public transit networks, starting with a growing suburb of Phoenix. In Chandler, Arizona, Waymo’s robotaxis will soon join the town’s Flex

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Waymo's Robotaxis Are Heading to Nashville. Everything to Know About the Self-Driving Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 02:29:20

Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Wednesday, Waymo shared it's heading to Nashville through a partnership with Lyft. Waymo will start driving autonomously there in the "coming months," it said in a blog post, before opening to the public next year. Riders will hail self-driving vehicles through the Waymo app (formerly Waymo One) and will eventually have the op

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Waymo is headed to Nashville in 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 13:08:07

Waymo is plotting a route for Tennessee, as it plans to bring its robotaxis to Nashville. The company expects to start autonomous driving operations in the city in the coming months before opening up to the public in 2026. At the outset, folks in the area will be able to hail a ride via the Waymo app. Down the line, Lyft will be able to match users with Waymo rides in Nashville. Waymo is currently up and running in five US cities: San Francisco (and other parts of the Bay Area), Los Angeles, P

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Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 17:10:45

We’re on our way to Music City! We’re excited to bring the magic of Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hailing service to riders in Nashville, in partnership with Lyft. Our generalizable Waymo Driver has become even more capable as we’ve scaled to hundreds of thousands of fully autonomous rides each week across five major U.S. cities. We’ll start fully autonomous operations in Nashville in the coming months, and open to public riders next year. We’ll do so by pairing our world-leading technology and

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Lyft shares pop on Waymo deal to bring robotaxis to Nashville next year

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-09-26 22:38:36

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle is seen in Tempe, Arizona, on the outskirts of Phoenix, on September 15, 2025. Waymo has partnered with Uber to get its robotaxis into Atlanta and Austin, Texas. Now it's teaming up with Lyft for the first time in a commercial deal to enter Nashville next year. Lyft stock climbed 10% on the news. Riders in Nashville will be able to hail a Waymo robotaxi through the Waymo One app, and Lyft will add Waymo robotaxis to its platform over tim

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Waymo to launch a robotaxi service in Nashville in 2026

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-26 22:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Music City, USA. The Alphabet-owned company plans on launching its robotaxi service in Nashville in 2026. Customers will be able to hail a ride initially through the Waymo One app, and then later thro

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Lyft and Waymo are partnering to bring robotaxis to Nashville

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-09-26 22:05:00

Waymo has struck a deal with ride-hailing company Lyft to launch a robotaxi service in Nashville in 2026. The company said Wednesday it will begin testing its fleet of all-electric and autonomous Jaguar I-Pace vehicles in the Nashville area in the coming months and will open up the service to the public next year. The partnership agreement announced Wednesday comes as Waymo ramps up its robotaxi expansion from its initial commercial market of Phoenix to Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, and San Fr

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Waymo obtains permit to test robotaxis at San Francisco International Airport

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-09-28 10:07:55

Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin. Alphabet -owned Waymo obtained a permit to start testing its robotaxis at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and the company announced on Tuesday. Waymo will partner with the airport to roll out its commercial robotaxi service in phases, "beginning with employee testing soon ahead of welcoming Bay Area riders," company spokesperson Chris Bonelli told CNBC. That means the robotaxis will

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Waymo gets green light for airport service in San Francisco

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-28 10:18:14

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Waymo is now permitted to test its robotaxi service at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), a big win for the company as it seeks to expand its service area and tackle more popular, revenue-generating destinations. After years of

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Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO

news.ycombinator.com The Waymo Team 2025-09-28 13:38:08

All systems go at SFO! Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at San Francisco International Airport. We’ll partner with SFO to prepare our operations at the airport in phases, beginning with employee testing soon ahead of welcoming Bay Area riders. Pickups and dropoffs will initially start at SFO’s Kiss & Fly area – a short AirTrain ride from the terminals – with the intention to explore other locations at the airport in the future. This is a major milestone th

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Waymo’s Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Self-Driving Beyond the Hype

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-28 14:35:00

Autonomous vehicles have long been touted as “just around the corner,” but the reality of bringing self-driving cars to the streets is far from simple. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco — Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana joins the Disrupt Stage for a wide-ranging conversation on the true state of AVs and where the industry goes from here. Inside the self-driving reality check While headlines often highlight crashes, controversies, or overblown promises, M

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All Systems Go at SFO

news.ycombinator.com The Waymo Team 2025-09-28 18:38:08

All systems go at SFO! Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at San Francisco International Airport. We’ll partner with SFO to prepare our operations at the airport in phases, beginning with employee testing soon ahead of welcoming Bay Area riders. Pickups and dropoffs will initially start at SFO’s Kiss & Fly area – a short AirTrain ride from the terminals – with the intention to explore other locations at the airport in the future. This is a major milestone th

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Waymo approved to start testing autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-28 18:39:19

Waymo has been granted a permit to start testing its autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport, ahead of the launch of a commercial service. The San Francisco mayor’s office announced Tuesday that the airport, known as SFO, and Waymo have signed a “Testing and Operations Pilot Permit” after years of back-and-forth negotiations. The deal with SFO comes just two weeks after Waymo was cleared to start testing at nearby San Jose Mineta International airport. SFO is not the first a

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Family Baffled By Waymo Robotaxis Constantly Hanging Out in Front of Their House

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-14 05:15:40

Waymo robotaxis are making their way to more American cities, but they're not always winning the hearts and minds of the people who live there. The autonomous cars have been spotted blundering the wrong way down a street and causing traffic jams, and residents have quickly grown fed up with their obnoxious back-up noise. They're also, apparently, haunting random locations like a conspicuous stalker. Just ask one Los Angeles couple, Lisa Delgin and Zach Tucker, who claim that ever since a Waymo

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People Are Backflipping Off of Waymo’s Robotaxis

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-14 14:30:17

In a bizarre (or hilarious) late-night episode that underscored public unease with autonomous vehicles, several men climbed onto stalled Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco’s Marina District and began attacking them. They then started sitting and climbing on them and, at one point, began doing backflips off the driverless cars while a crowd cheered. City police eventually cleared the scene, but the incident highlights growing tensions over deployments of robotaxis in urban areas. So what happene

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Waymo Says You’re Not Getting Its Footage Without a Warrant

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-15 09:59:40

Waymo is quietly drawing new boundaries over how authorities access data from its autonomous vehicles. The company said it will reject any requests that are not backed by a legal request such as a warrant or court order. The move is one of several signaling a growing tension between innovation, privacy, and law enforcement power. A new privacy guardrail Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana recently emphasized that the company will challenge, limit, or reject robotaxi footage requests from law enforc

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People Are Back-Flipping Off of Waymo’s Robotaxis

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-15 10:30:17

In a bizarre (or hilarious) late-night episode that underscored public unease with autonomous vehicles, several men climbed onto stalled Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco’s Marina District and began attacking them. They then started sitting and climbing on them, and are one point began doing back flips off the driverless cars while a crowd cheered. City police eventually cleared the scene, but the incident highlights growing tensions over deployments of robotaxis in urban areas. So what happen

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Waymo to begin testing at San Jose airport this fall

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-16 02:42:53

Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin. Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test-driving robotaxis at its first California-based airport, the company said Thursday. The autonomous car unit has been cleared to begin testing driverless rides at the San José Mineta International Airport in San Jose, California, this fall. Waymo said it plans to offer paid rides at the airport later this year. "With San José at the epicenter of the biggest sporting events of 2026,

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Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-16 10:56:29

Waymo has been cleared to serve its first airpot in California: San Jose Mineta International. The company announced Thursday that it will start testing its robotaxis there in the coming months, and that it plans to start offering commercial rides by the end of the year. The company has spent years working toward serving airports in its home state. Waymo was going back-and-forth with officials at San Francisco’s airport back in 2023 but was rebuffed. Earlier this year, though, Waymo was granted

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Waymo Is Expanding to Denver and Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 08:46:00

Table of Contents Waymo Is Expanding to Denver and Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Tuesday, Waymo shared it's heading to Denver in the fall "to lay the groundwork for a fully autonomous service in the future." The company is also gearing up to expand to Seattle. This comes after Waymo said in an Aug. 29 blog po

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Waymo Is Expanding to Denver, Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 13:46:00

Table of Contents Waymo Is Expanding to Denver and Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Tuesday, Waymo shared it's heading to Denver in the fall "to lay the groundwork for a fully autonomous service in the future." The company is also gearing up to expand to Seattle. This comes after Waymo said in an Aug. 29 blog po

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Waymo starts testing in Denver, Seattle in bid to expand robotaxi service across U.S.

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-20 14:40:43

Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test drives of its robotaxis in Denver and Seattle this week, with humans behind the wheel, the company said Tuesday. "We will begin driving manually before validating our technology and operations for fully autonomous services in the future," a company spokesperson said in an email. Waymo announced the tests in blog posts. The autonomous vehicle venture aims to expand its driverless, ride-hailing service across the U.S. after already launching commercial opera

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Waymo expands to Denver and Seattle with its Zeekr-made vans

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-20 18:48:09

Waymo announced Tuesday that it’s going to bring both of its vehicles — the Jaguar I-Pace SUV and the Zeekr van — to Denver and Seattle starting this week, the latest move in a continued expansion across the United States. The vehicles will be manually driven to start, before the company starts testing its autonomous tech in both cities. Waymo told TechCrunch that it hopes to start offering robotaxi trips in Denver next year and the Seattle metropolitan area “as soon as we’re permitted to do so

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Waymo Gets the Green Light to Test in New York City. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 00:20:23

Table of Contents Waymo Gets the Green Light to Test in New York City. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Friday, the city of New York granted Waymo a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, with a specialist sitting behind the wheel. Waymo arrived on the streets of New York City

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Waymo Gets First Driverless Car Permit in NYC

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-05 06:19:06

Waymo has become the first autonomous vehicle operator to secure a permit to test self-driving cars on the streets of New York City, the state’s department of transportation said in announcing the news. The New York City Department of Motor Vehicles approved Waymo’s application, allowing the company to conduct limited testing of its autonomous vehicles within certain city zones. The permit comes after years of regulatory negotiations and signals a potential shift toward broader deployment of d

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Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-05 00:00:15

Waymo can now test its self-driving cars in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has announced. Local authorities have granted the company the permit needed to be able to test autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. It's the first-ever permit for the "testing deployment" of AVs the city has granted. Waymo will be able to deploy a fleet with up to eight vehicles in the city until late September 2025. For now, though, the permit only allows Waymo to test its AVs with drivers be

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Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

news.ycombinator.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-06 10:02:48

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the city's first autonomous vehicle testing launch. Waymo will start testing up to eight vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September with the potential to extend the program. New York state law requires t

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Autonomous Vehicles to Hit the Streets of NYC for the First Time

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-06 10:50:20

As if New York’s taxi drivers didn’t get squeezed enough by the Ubers and Lyfts of the world, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday that the New York Department of Transportation has granted Google’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Waymo, a permit to test its self-driving cars in the city. It’ll be the first fully self-driving car to operate within the city. Waymo will roll out eight vehicles in New York City starting in September, and they will operate in Manhattan and Downtown Bro

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Waymo approved to start autonomous vehicle testing in New York City

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-07 00:19:05

Waymo has been granted a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City, the first such approval granted by the city. The company told TechCrunch it plans to start testing “immediately.” The company is allowed to deploy up to eight of its Jaguar I-Pace SUVs in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September. Waymo’s vehicles must have a trained safety operator in the driver’s seat, with at least one hand on the wheel at all times. The company cannot pick up passengers (since it

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Waymo granted first permit to begin testing autonomous vehicles in New York City

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-07 05:28:35

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the city's first autonomous vehicle testing launch. Waymo will start testing eight vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September with the potential to extend the program. New York state law requires the com

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