{"id":165284,"date":"2026-02-05T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165284\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:02:08","slug":"waymo-officially-announces-expansion-into-sacramento-kion-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165284\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo officially announces expansion into Sacramento \u2013 KION TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cecilio  Padilla<\/p>\n<p>Sacramentans will soon be able to hail a ride on Waymo\u2019s driverless taxis. <\/p>\n<p>Waymo officially announced its plans to expand into Sacramento on Thursday. However, no official start of service date was given. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs California\u2019s capital and a growing center for progress, Sacramento\u2019s spirit of innovation makes it the perfect next step for our expansion,\u201d the company said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/sacramento-traffic-safety-concerns-waymo-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The move comes just months<\/a> after the California Department of Motor Vehicles approved a major expansion for Waymo that allows the rideshare company to operate its robotaxis in more regions across the state \u2013 including parts of Solano, Yolo and Sacramento counties. <\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty hailed the coming of Waymo in a statement shared by the company. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Sacramento grows, so does our need for safe, reliable transportation. We\u2019re excited to work with Waymo to expand mobility options that are designed with safety at their core,\u201d McCarty stated. <\/p>\n<p>A fleet of Waymo\u2019s vehicles are being driven the old-fashioned way to Sacramento this week, the company says. Once there, the cars will start learning the ins and outs of Sacramento streets. <\/p>\n<p>Waymo robotaxis currently operate in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as four other cities. Planned service in Boston was also part of Waymo\u2019s Thursday announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Cecilio Padilla Sacramentans will soon be able to hail a ride on Waymo\u2019s driverless taxis. Waymo officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-165284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}