Waymo accepts public riders in Miami

Waymo is starting the new year with a new city: Miami.

Starting today, anyone on the company’s nearly 10,000-person waiting list can hop into one of its robo-taxis for rides within a 60-square-mile service area that includes popular neighborhoods like the Design District, Wynwood, Brickell, and Coral Gables — but not popular tourist destinations like South Beach. Vehicles will also initially avoid highways and stick to local roads, with plans to do so Expansion of highways Later this year.

It will be a similar phased rollout as in other cities, with Waymo first opening up to those who have joined its waiting list and expressed interest in trying out its robotaxis before making them available to the wider public. The map will also grow over time to include more neighborhoods and key locations, such as Miami International Airport.

Waymo’s fleet of self-driving vehicles will be managed by a company called… Movewhich provides fleet services as well as a range of financial products to mobility companies. The African company (with several offices in Nigeria) is backed by Uber and was recently With a value of 750 million dollars.

Waymo’s robotaxi business is growing slowly, even as the company grows more confident in naming the markets it wants to target in the future. Waymo currently operates in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, and Phoenix. And he hopes To launch In more than 20 cities In the coming years, including San Diego, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Tampa, Houston, Orlando, Washington, D.C., New York City, Denver, New Orleans, Tokyo, London and many other cities. (naturally, Not every city Automated taxis are welcomed With open arms.)

In its Miami ad, Waymo touted its safety record — A Ten-fold reduction in serious injury incidents Compared to human drivers in the cities it operates in – and the growing demand for them. At the end of 2025, Waymo said it was taking about 450,000 paid driverless rides each week.