Waymo Adds Nearly 250 Square Miles in Five US Metros

Waymo is enlarging its driverless service area by nearly 250 square miles over the next week. The growth is spread across Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area, cities where the company already runs rides with nobody in the driver's seat.

Waymo announced the expansion in a short post on its blog on Tuesday. The updated maps are already in the Waymo app.

What changes in each city

In Los Angeles, service now runs down the coast into the South Bay. It passes through Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach and reaches Torrance.

Nashville riders can travel further south, with the zoo now inside the zone. In Orlando, coverage on the east side nearly doubles, and service downtown is enhanced.

San Diego's zone stretches north to La Jolla, taking in University City and Clairemont on the way. In the Bay Area, the company is pushing further into the South Bay, including a link to BART at Berryessa station in San Jose. The area now runs from San Francisco down the Peninsula to San Jose and Campbell.

Waymo did not break out the square mileage for each city. It also did not say how many vehicles it is adding to cover the new ground.

Young markets, fast growth

Some of these markets are new. Waymo opened Nashville to public riders in April with a zone of about 60 square miles covering downtown, Midtown, Music Row and East Nashville. San Diego went public on September 1, with roughly 50 square miles between the beach and I-15.

In May, Waymo's coverage passed 1,400 square miles across 11 cities. Since then it has gone driverless in Las Vegas and launched in San Diego. The company now says it operates in 15 US metros and gives more than 500,000 paid rides per week. It is also mapping Toronto for a 2028 launch.

Tesla is also drawing larger maps. After launching its Robotaxi service in Dallas and Houston with small geofences in April, it stretched Houston to about 254 square miles this week, according to Robotaxi Tracker. The tracker counts 34 vehicles in Houston.

Waymo logged 3.9 million rider-only miles per week in the second quarter of 2026. Tesla's driverless fleet covered 558,000 miles in its latest reported week, mostly in Austin. On the same day, Elon Musk claimed the robotaxi race against Waymo "was never a real contest."

Source: Waymo