Waymo to dispatch robotaxis in Dallas next year
The Robotaxi Waymo pioneer added Dallas to his expansion list of cities where people can ask for a driverless journey from next year, trying to distance themselves from the rivals that rush to catch up in the autonomous race.
Dallas will become the second big city in Texas where Waymo Robotaxie, after the company’s move to Austin earlier this year as part of a partnership with the Ridewing leader Uber.
Unlike the driver -free Austin rides which must be ordered via the Uber application, Waymo will deploy his Dallas Robotaxis through his own service and will associate with a Group budget opinion to manage his fleet. Waymo did not set an exact date in 2026 for when its Robotaxie begins to sail in Dallas, which joins Washington DC and Miami as cities where the company plans to develop next year.
Waymo Robotaxis has already provided more than 250,000 trips to Austin and several other major American cities, including Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Atlanta.
While the company continues to develop in new cities, it draws even further from the rest of the peloton trying to launch carpooling without driver.
The budding rivals include Tesla, which launched a Robotaxi service limited to Austin last month in a prelude to the fact that the CEO Elon Musk has promised several times will be a driver -free car fleet, even if the car manufacturer is confronted with legal challenges questioning the capacity of its autonomous technology.
Amazon also aims to deploy Robotaxie in Las Vegas at the end of this year as part of its autonomous zoox division. And Uber and Lyft counted on a variety of partnerships to complete their fleet of vehicles focused on humans with more driver -free options.
While others are still trying to withdraw their robotaxis from the starting blocks, it has been almost five years that the Waymo driverless carpooling service made its debut in Phoenix with a technology that started as a secret project in Google in 2009. Waymo came out of Google in 2016, but the two companies remain attached under the same corporate parent, Alphabet Inc.
Waymo always tests the possibility of bringing its robotaxis to at least two other cities in Texas – Houston and San Antonio – while exploring a potential expansion in San Diego, Boston and New York. He also plans tokyo as the first Robotaxi market outside the United States
