Waymo Rollout
Tracking Waymo's autonomous vehicle deployment and market expansion: cities, service mode, and what 'driverless' actually covers.
2020 · Public robotaxi
Phoenix
The original commercial ODD. Still the reference city for weather-easy, mapped L4.
2024 · Public robotaxi
San Francisco
Density, hills, and politics. The city that taught everyone else about edge cases and city hall.
2024 · Public robotaxi
Los Angeles
Scale play. Freeways plus sprawl: a different ODD than the grid of SF.
2025 · Service expanding
Austin
Overlaps the Tesla robotaxi conversation geographically. Useful for side-by-side watching.
2025 · Service expanding
Atlanta
Airport and highway mix. A test of whether the playbook survives humidity and Southern sprawl.
2026 · Announced / staged
Further metros
The 2026 question is cadence: how many new ODDs per year before the map-and-ops cost dominates.
Waymo is the existence proof that a geofenced, heavily mapped, multi-sensor L4 service can carry passengers without a person in the seat. The question for 2026 is not 'does it work in Phoenix'. It is how expensive each new city is, how weather and density punish the ODD, and how fast the playbook copies.
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