{"id":450069,"date":"2026-09-01T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450069\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:18:10","slug":"waymo-welcomes-first-san-diego-riders-starting-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450069\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo welcomes first San Diego riders starting Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 Tuesday marks the first day that San Diegans can hail a public ride in an autonomous Waymo vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>Waymo is expanding its service across the country to include San Diego, Tampa and Denver starting September 1.<\/p>\n<p>The company says thousands of residents in the San Diego area are already signed up Waymo&#8217;s services, and new riders will be invited &#8220;on a rolling basis.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The service area is about 50 square miles, roughly spanning from Logan Heights to Pacific Beach and from Sunset Cliffs to Normal Heights.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788279490_863_.png\" alt=\"Waymo San Diego ride area\"  width=\"536\" height=\"435\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Waymo<\/p>\n<p>The vehicles will include the company&#8217;s new Ojai vehicles, which feature plenty of seating, car chargers, and space for luggage.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.10news.com\/news\/local-news\/waymo-is-here-in-san-diego-but-not-open-for-rides-yet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KGTV recently spoke with community members about the introduction of driverless vehicles to the area<\/a>. Tourists and San Diegans alike had mixed reactions to the autonomous vehicle rollout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 Tuesday marks the first day that San Diegans can hail a public ride in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-450069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450069","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=450069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}