Waymo said it is launching fully driverless robotaxi rides for employees in Atlanta, an important step before the company opens the service up to members

However, the road tests don’t necessarily indicate that commercial services are being imminently planned in these locations. So citizens of San Diego and Las Vegas — and the eight other locations — may spot a Waymo touring their cities this year, but they won't be able to hop in for a ride anytime soon.

Waymo announced its first new deployment of 2025. It already has plans to launch another service in Miami later this year.

Waymo just flipped the switch from supervised to unsupervised in Atlanta, where it aims to eventually launch a commercial robotaxi service later this year through an exclusive partnership with Uber. But for now,

As another winter storm bears down on the Bay Area, some drivers will opt to stay off the road. Others will squint through rain-lashed windshields. Another option is to call a Waymo and let a robot do the driving.

Waymo is eyeing Las Vegas as one such testing bed. The city is, as Rose puts it, "interesting," which sounds quite a lot like a nice way to say "a huge damn mess." The Verge points out Vegas' chaotic strip,

Waymo's approach involves deploying fewer than ten manually driven vehicles in each city for a couple of months.

Waymo has already driven 1.9 million miles in Los Angeles. Its short history, maybe inevitably, hasn't been without bumps that have raised concerns.

A more favorable federal regulatory and legislative environment may help propel the growth of driverless ride-hailing vehicles in the United States.

Soon, when Austinites pull up to a light between a Waymo and Tesla they might be the only person in a car. That's because Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced plans to bring a paid ride-hailing service, powered by Tesla’s recently announced robotaxis,

The vehicles Waymo receives from Geely, it says, are “base vehicles,” stripped of telematics systems and any other technology that would allow the vehicle to communicate with, or send data back to, its manufacturer. Only “authorized personnel” install Waymo's self-driving technology into the cars after they’re delivered to the United States.

Waymo plans to start testing autonomous vehicles in 10 new cities this year, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, according to The Verge. However, this