Five existing Waymo markets, not five fresh ones: that is the shape of this rollout. Across Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area, nearly 250 square miles of coverage comes online over the coming week, per an October 27 post on its Waypoint blog. The app’s updated coverage maps show exactly where the boundary moved.
The geography, market by market. Torrance joins the Los Angeles map as service slides along the coast into the South Bay. San Diego pushes north into La Jolla. Southern Bay Area neighborhoods gain access, along with a fresh BART link at Berryessa Station. Nashville gains southern reach, enough to cover zoo runs. Orlando’s eastern footprint nearly doubles, and downtown gets denser coverage.
October brought more. Fully driverless rides opened to anyone in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa on October 14, including San Antonio International Airport, after hundreds of thousands had ridden there. Harry Reid International joined October 21, with dedicated zones on the Ground Zero Level at Terminals 1 and 3 inside the 24-square-mile Las Vegas area. A $5 billion term loan, its first debt financing, closed October 8, and groundwork started for Toronto, aiming at 2028, and Madrid’s region.
Safety numbers still carry the pitch. The analysis rests on 270 million-plus driverless miles logged by June in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco. Its September analysis counted 82 percent fewer injury-causing crashes than a human benchmark and 95 percent fewer serious-injury crashes, with pedestrian injuries down 93 percent.
Thirteen metros now appear on the service list. Denver and Las Vegas are adding riders gradually, and Austin and Atlanta run exclusively through Uber.
