St. Petersburg, FL – Waymo robotaxis could eventually become part of the transportation landscape in St. Petersburg as the autonomous vehicle company moves closer to launching driverless operations in Tampa.<\/p>\n
Waymo vehicles have been seen traveling in St. Petersburg, raising questions about whether the company could eventually expand its planned Tampa service across Tampa Bay into Pinellas County.<\/p>\n
The company has not announced public robotaxi service in St. Petersburg or confirmed that the city will be included in its initial Tampa service area.<\/p>\n
Waymo announced in July that it was preparing to begin fully autonomous operations in Tampa, along with Denver, Las Vegas and San Diego. <\/p>\n
The company said vehicles in those cities would soon operate without a human specialist behind the wheel.<\/p>\n
Initial rider-only trips are expected to be limited to Waymo employees before the company begins welcoming members of the public.<\/p>\n
Waymo began laying the groundwork for operations in Tampa in 2025 as part of its continued expansion into additional U.S. markets.<\/p>\n
The company already provides public autonomous ride-hailing service in Miami and Orlando, where customers can request driverless vehicles using the Waymo app.<\/p>\n
Before operating in a new area, Waymo maps roads in detail, including intersections, traffic signals, lane markings, curbs and crosswalks. <\/p>\n
Its autonomous driving system then combines those maps with real-time sensor information and artificial intelligence to navigate.<\/p>\n
Waymo has not announced when public rides will begin in Tampa or whether St. Petersburg will officially join the service area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg, FL – Waymo robotaxis could eventually become part of the transportation landscape in St. Petersburg as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2954,4626,29901,17627,726,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,1777,24480,144499],"class_list":["post-373716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-area","tag-company","tag-launch","tag-operations","tag-service","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-vehicles","tag-waymo","tag-waymo-robotaxis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373716","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=373716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}