Overview
- Nearly 10,000 people on Waymo’s Miami waitlist are being invited on a rolling basis, making the city the company’s sixth U.S. market for paid driverless rides.
- The initial service zone covers the Design District, Wynwood, Brickell and Coral Gables, excludes Miami Beach, avoids highways for now, and is slated to add airport access soon.
- Rides must be hailed in the Waymo app, with no integration into other ride‑hailing platforms for the Miami launch.
- Fleet charging, cleaning and maintenance are outsourced to Uber‑backed Moove, and fewer than 100 vehicles are expected on the road initially, according to a company spokesperson.
- Waymo touts a tenfold reduction in serious‑injury crashes and about 450,000 weekly paid trips at the end of 2025, while addressing scrutiny over San Francisco outage gridlock and an NHTSA probe into school‑bus interactions that prompted a software recall.