Waymo Expands Robotaxi Service to Four New US Cities Reaching 10 Markets Nationwide

Waymo is absolutely crushing it right now. The Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company just announced they're launching in four new cities - Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando - which brings their total US markets to a massive 10. That's literally double what they had just a couple months ago.

Starting today, people in these four Texas and Florida cities who already have the Waymo app can start requesting rides. Other customers will be added on a rolling basis, so if you're not in the first wave, don't worry - they're phasing people in systematically.

Here's the interesting part: Waymo hasn't actually obtained permits for driverless commercial operations in either Dallas or Charlotte yet. They're currently deploying manually driven vehicles to gather mapping data while their permit applications work through the bureaucratic process. This is a pretty standard approach for them - get the mapping and testing done before going fully driverless.

The expansion is significant because it shows Waymo is serious about scaling beyond their original California and Arizona strongholds. Texas and Florida have been pretty friendly to autonomous vehicle testing, so it makes sense they'd push into those markets hard. The fact that they're now in 10 cities nationwide is a huge milestone for the robotaxi industry as a whole.

For real though - imagine a world where you can just summon a self-driving car from your phone in 10 different cities. That's not sci-fi anymore, that's happening right now in 2026.