{"id":372789,"date":"2026-08-16T05:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372789\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:36:30","slug":"waymo-robotaxis-may-be-coming-to-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372789\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo robotaxis may be coming to St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Related video: Waymo, the self-driving cars, are in Tampa<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Waymo, a company known for its driverless taxi services, may be coming to St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a public information officer with the city of St. Petersburg, Waymo reached out earlier this week to schedule a meeting with St. Pete&#8217;s Transportation department for August 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The PIO said that the meeting was the first conversation the city has had with Waymo representatives and that during the meeting, the company expressed interest in expanding its operations into Pinellas County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The PIO also said that Waymo is looking to hold an initial meet-and-greet with the city but provided no further details on when that might take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Waymo previously <a data-ylk=\"slk:began testing their cars in Tampa;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\/news\/hillsborough-county\/waymo-robotaxis-to-go-driverless-in-tampa\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">began testing their cars in Tampa <\/a>in December 2025 and the company announced that its fleet will soon go 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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":"Related video: Waymo, the self-driving cars, are in Tampa ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Waymo, a company known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200,24480],"class_list":["post-372789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-waymo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372789","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=372789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}