Overview
- Waymo robotaxi rides became available through the Lyft app in Nashville on Wednesday, making the city the first U.S. market where the same pool of vehicles is dispatched to requests from both companies.
- The companies are using a dynamic supply‑sharing system that routes each car to whichever app generates the next eligible trip inside a zone covering Downtown/Broadway, North Nashville/Germantown, East Nashville, Midtown and South Nashville.
- Lyft’s Flexdrive unit will manage day‑to‑day fleet operations including cleaning, charging, maintenance and inspections and will open an 80,000 square‑foot depot near the airport in October to support the operation.
- Riders can opt out of autonomous matches and human drivers will continue to take trips in and around the service area, a setup Lyft and Waymo call a hybrid network that preserves rider choice.
- The Nashville launch is part of a broader Waymo expansion that reports hundreds of thousands of paid autonomous trips per week and signals the company will wind down some single‑app exclusivity deals, with Austin and Atlanta set to see Waymo’s own app by 2028.