{"id":334715,"date":"2026-07-09T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334715\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:49:18","slug":"waymo-robotaxis-to-go-driverless-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334715\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo robotaxis to go driverless in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: Tampa firefighters train with Waymo ahead of driverless cars arrival to city<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Waymo, a company rolling out its driverless taxi service in cities across the U.S., announced that its vehicles will soon hit the streets of Tampa without a human behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Waymo began testing their cars in Tampa in December 2025. If you&#8217;ve encountered one since then, you may have noticed an employee in the driver&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The company did not give an exact date for when its fleet will go fully autonomous, but said it would happen &#8220;soon.&#8221; When Waymo rolls out its service to the general public, riders will be able to hail its vehicles for trips across the company&#8217;s service area, 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to Tampa, Waymo announced that its fleet is going fully autonomous in San Diego, Las Vegas and Denver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: Tampa firefighters train with Waymo ahead of driverless cars arrival to city TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136,137927,24480],"class_list":["post-334715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-taxi-service","tag-waymo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334715","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=334715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}