{"id":454907,"date":"2026-09-05T22:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454907\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T22:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:50:34","slug":"waymo-expands-driverless-ride-service-to-san-diego-denver-and-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454907\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo Expands Driverless Ride Service to San Diego, Denver and Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waymo is expanding its driverless ride service to San Diego as the company continues to grow its autonomous vehicle network.<\/p>\n<p>The company recently launched its robotaxi service in San Diego, along with Denver and Tampa. The expansion brings Waymo&#8217;s fleet to about 4,000 fully autonomous vehicles operating across 14 cities.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can book a ride through the Waymo app. In some markets, rides can also be booked through Uber.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion comes as other companies continue developing their own driverless ride services. Amazon&#8217;s Zoox says it plans to begin testing its driverless service in San Diego and Houston later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The competing services mark a growing push toward autonomous transportation in major U.S. cities, with San Diego emerging as a key market for driverless technology.<\/p>\n<p>Explore: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"text-blue-500 underline\" href=\"http:\/\/NBCPalmSprings.com\">NBCPalmSprings.com<\/a>, where we are connecting the Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waymo is expanding its driverless ride service to San Diego as the company continues to grow its autonomous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8487,6919,7,11544,23183,179628,22082,74,76,75,23701,179629,13355,3986,5987,14623],"class_list":["post-454907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-amazon","tag-autonomous-vehicles","tag-california","tag-denver","tag-driverless-cars","tag-robo-taxi","tag-robotaxi","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-transportation","tag-selfdriving-cars","tag-tampa","tag-uber","tag-waymo","tag-zoox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454907","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=454907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}