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Waymo to expand robotaxi service to Las Vegas, San Diego and Detroit next year

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blonder

7 hours ago

Is Detroit the first Waymo city that sees more than a negligible amount of snow? It will be interesting to see Waymos snowy road debut.

linehedonist

6 hours ago

Waymo was doing tests in NYC earlier this fall but it looks like there are legal difficulties to getting actual approval in New York: https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/09/waymo-driverless-cars-nyc...

Scoundreller

4 hours ago

not that I'm complaining, but you'd think the capital of the big3 atuomakers would have put up a bigger fight than NYC

Does anyone know when the Geely Zeeker and Hyundai Ioniq5 will be ready? I know the Zeeker is doing road testing already. I’m not sure if the ioniq5 is doing road testing yet. With all of these new cities being announced they must be getting close.

NewJazz

12 hours ago

Lol I hope google using the ioniq5 will get the whole iccu issue some attention.

cyrusradfar

15 hours ago

Yes! Very excited, anyone know when it's coming to Portland and Seattle?

geoffpado

13 hours ago

Seattle, at least, already has Waymo cars in the "human-driven data gathering" mode that this article is announcing.

tocs3

15 hours ago

Do Waymo cars have different "personalities" in different cities? It occurred to me that drives in different places drive differently and maybe the cars adapt.

mvid

13 hours ago

I have noticed them change driving style over time in SF, so I would imagine they would adjust to a city over time as well

bl4kers

10 hours ago

Yes, it's trained in part on local driver data