Overview
- Fully driverless rides opened to invited users via the Waymo app in the four cities, with rolling invitations before broader access later in 2026.
- Waymo now operates in 10 metros with roughly 3,000 vehicles, starting with dozens per new city and using Jaguar I-PACE cars running its fifth-generation driver.
- Coverage is limited at launch: about 25 square miles inside Houston’s Loop, roughly 50 square miles in Dallas, approximately 60 square miles on surface streets in San Antonio, and an Orlando corridor along I‑4 serving major attractions but not the airport.
- Federal reviews continue after recent incidents, including an NHTSA probe of a child struck in Santa Monica and NTSB scrutiny of robotaxi behavior near school buses.
- San Antonio residents have reported parked vehicles with sensors active, police calls and a reported cat fatality, while Waymo cites operational safeguards, a new $16 billion funding round and a target of more than 1 million weekly rides by year-end.