Since it began in 2009 as “the secret Google Self-Driving Car Project,” Waymo has turned a pilot project into a viable product by scaling rider-only service across multiple cities, logging more than 200 million miles of fully autonomous, driverless operation on public roads as of Feb. 2026.
Waymo has already expanded into airports such as Phoenix Sky Harbor and San Jose International and is logging miles in numerous major cities nationally, including Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. Expansion to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Chicago, Baltimore and other markets is now in the works, while volume currently surpasses 400,000 fully autonomous, paid rides weekly.
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