{"id":50055,"date":"2025-11-12T20:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/50055\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:19:11","slug":"waymo-news-self-driving-car-rides-to-hit-san-francisco-bay-area-phoenix-and-los-angeles-freeways-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/50055\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo news: Self-driving car rides to hit San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix and Los Angeles freeways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Waymo announced Wednesday that its self-driving vehicles have received the green light to offer rides on San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix and Los Angeles freeways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A select group of riders will have freeway access, before the option expands, Waymo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Freeway capabilities will eventually be expanded to Austin, Atlanta and more, the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Some northern California riders can also now book rides from San Francisco to San Jose, including curbside service at San Jose Mineta International Airport (SJC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The expansion creates a 260-square-mile network across the Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/waymo-news-driving-car-pulled-san-bruno-california-making-illegal-turn-front-police\/17918562\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waymo driverless car pulled over in northern California for making illegal U-turn<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In September, Waymo also won approval to roll out service at the San Francisco Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This experience, reinforced by comprehensive testing as well as extensive operational preparation, supports the delivery of a safe and reliable service. We&#8217;ve also closely collaborated with safety officials, to seamlessly support this new phase of service,&#8221; Waymo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Riders must sign up to get access to freeway rides through the Waymo app.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Waymo announced Wednesday that its self-driving vehicles have received the green light to offer rides&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[32384,101,103,102,32381,104,106,105,32380,32376,32383,32377,32378,5991,32382,32379],"class_list":["post-50055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-32384","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-francisco-waymo","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-waymo-car","tag-waymo-freeway","tag-waymo-los-angeles","tag-waymo-news","tag-waymo-phoenix","tag-waymo-ride","tag-waymo-self-driving","tag-waymo-sfo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50055","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=50055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}