{"id":333653,"date":"2026-07-08T22:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333653\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:18:35","slug":"waymo-announces-expansion-to-tampa-three-other-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333653\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo announces expansion to Tampa, three other cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The driverless\u00a0rideshare service Waymo has announced its vehicles are coming to Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as the company said it was also expanding to Las Vegas, Denver and San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear when riders will be able to officially hail a Waymo in Tampa, but the company said to <a href=\"https:\/\/waymo.com\/rides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">download the Waymo app<\/a> to be &#8220;one of the first to ride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Autonomous mode activated in four new cities! \u2728 Starting today you\u2019ll see our vehicles with no human at the wheel in Las Vegas\u2014with Denver, San Diego, and Tampa to follow. Want to be one of the first to ride when we start serving these cities? Download the Waymo app and we\u2019ll\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dxdpL2EpGV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dxdpL2EpGV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Waymo (@Waymo) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Waymo\/status\/2074856063770251739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waymo has already <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews13.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/04\/15\/waymo-opens-rides-to-everyone-in-orlando-and-miami\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched in two other cities in Florida<\/a>,\u00a0Miami and Orlando, where rides have been open to everyone since April.<\/p>\n<p>Though, Miami is currently the only city in Florida where Waymo can use interstates for travel.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The driverless\u00a0rideshare service Waymo has announced its vehicles are coming to Tampa. The announcement came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104157,2173,2175,276,2200,115,135,137,136,2180,729,2177,2032],"class_list":["post-333653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-alex-henley","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-topic-latest-traffic-transit-news","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}