Waymo Expands Fully Autonomous Ride-Hailing Across Five U.S. Cities

Waymo said on October 27, 2026 that it will scale its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in five cities over the next week, adding nearly 250 square miles of territory across Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

The company detailed the expansion in an October 27 post on Waypoint, its official blog. Waymo said riders can check the new coverage in the Waymo app or through its updated service-area maps. All five cities are existing Waymo service areas, according to that page.

Where the New Coverage Will Reach

In Los Angeles, Waymo is extending service down the coast to the South Bay, adding Torrance. In Nashville, riders will be able to travel further south, including trips to the zoo. Waymo said it is nearly doubling its coverage area in the eastern part of Orlando, including enhanced service downtown. In San Diego, service is headed north to La Jolla. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the company is adding coverage in southern areas, including a new BART connection at Berryessa Station.

Waymo’s Current Service Footprint

The service-area page states that riders can ride with Waymo 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It lists service areas in Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Tampa. Denver and Las Vegas are marked as gradually adding riders. In Austin and Atlanta, Waymo is available only on Uber, according to the page.

Recent Fleet, Safety, and Market Announcements

The five-city expansion follows a run of October announcements documented on Waypoint, the official Waymo blog. On October 14, 2026, Waymo opened fully autonomous rides to anyone in San Antonio, San Diego, and Tampa, including service at San Antonio International Airport; the company said it had welcomed hundreds of thousands of riders in those cities since opening service earlier in the year. On October 21, 2026, Waymo began airport rides at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, with pickups and dropoffs at dedicated autonomous vehicle zones on the Ground Zero Level at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3, within what the company described as its current 24-square-mile Las Vegas service area. Waymo said the airport connection builds on recently announced partnerships as the official ride-hailing partner of the Las Vegas Raiders and Allegiant Stadium, as well as The Venetian Resort.

On September 22, 2026, Waymo launched teen accounts in Nashville, allowing riders ages 13 to 17 who are linked to a parent or guardian’s account to hail rides across 50 square miles of the city. The company said the accounts include specially trained Rider Support agents, trip-status sharing, and automatic ride receipts, and followed an earlier launch in Phoenix. On October 6, 2026, Waymo said a new silver version of its Ojai vehicle, with soft leatherette seating, carpeted flooring, a wireless phone charger, and new seats and rear armrests, is ramping production at its Mesa, Arizona driver integration plant and will begin serving rides in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas in the coming weeks.

On September 24, 2026, Waymo published an updated safety analysis covering more than 270 million miles of fully autonomous operations through the end of June 2026 across Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco. The company reported that, regardless of fault, the Waymo Driver was involved in 841 fewer injury-causing crashes than a human benchmark, an 82 percent reduction, and 95 percent fewer crashes causing serious injury or worse. Waymo said injury-causing crashes involving pedestrians fell 93 percent, with reductions of 86 percent for cyclists and 82 percent for motorcyclists.

On October 8, 2026, Waymo closed a $5 billion term loan that chief financial officer Steve Fieler described as the company’s first debt financing. Waymo said on October 16, 2026 that it is laying the groundwork for fully autonomous ride-hailing in Toronto with the goal of welcoming its first riders in 2028, and on October 20, 2026 it announced it is laying the groundwork for service in Spain, beginning with the Region of Madrid.