{"id":60720,"date":"2025-11-22T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/60720\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:05:42","slug":"waymo-autonomous-vehicles-to-expand-into-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/60720\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo autonomous vehicles to expand into San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWaymo, an autonomous driving service, is on its way to San Antonio.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

On Nov. 18, the company announced<\/a> its intentions to begin fully autonomous driving in San Antonio, as well as Dallas and Houston.<\/p>\n

In an email to Community Impact, Product Communications Manager Chris Bonelli said Waymo intends to make public rides available early in 2026.<\/p>\n

Initially started in 2009<\/a> as the Google self-driving car project, Waymo now has autonomous ride-hailing services in major metro areas across the United States. According to the company\u2019s website<\/a>, vehicles use highly detailed custom maps with real-time sensor data to determine their exact location.<\/p>\n

For San Antonio, fully autonomous testing with employees will begin \u201cin the coming weeks,\u201d Bonelli said. The company maps the territory before operating in a new area, noting all lane markers, stop signs, curbs, crosswalks and more.<\/p>\n

Notable quote<\/p>\n

Michael Daley, regional executive director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving Texas<\/a>, said autonomous vehicles \u201chold the exciting promise\u201d of preventing deaths and injuries caused on the road by behavioral factors such as impaired driving.<\/p>\n

\u201cSafely advancing progress toward fully autonomous vehicles will help achieve our mission of eliminating drunk and drugged driving,\u201d Daley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waymo, an autonomous driving service, is on its way to San Antonio. The details On Nov. 18, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32449,32450,32451,13958,32456,13703,32453,32452,32454,82,84,83,13961,32455,10020,32445,32446,32447,30503,32448],"class_list":["post-60720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-automated-car","tag-automated-car-service","tag-automated-taxi-service","tag-lyft","tag-lyft-san-antonio","tag-rideshare","tag-rideshare-san-antonio","tag-rideshare-service","tag-rideshare-service-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-uber","tag-uber-san-antonio","tag-waymo","tag-waymo-car","tag-waymo-driver","tag-waymo-near-me","tag-waymo-san-antonio","tag-waymo-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}