Expanding destinations for San Francisco and Los Angeles riders

We’re growing Waymo One once again, providing more rides in more places in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County.

Starting today, we’re bringing Waymo One to the San Francisco Peninsula for the first time, adding Daly City, Broadmoor, and Colma to our existing, round-the-clock public ride-hailing service. Tomorrow, we will expand our Los Angeles service area to include Marina del Rey, Mar Vista, Playa Vista, and more of Hollywood, Chinatown and Westwood.

“Our team is laser focused on refining Waymo One to be as seamless and useful as possible for our riders,” said Saswat Panigrahi, Waymo Chief Product Officer. “This means offering exceptional ride quality, short wait times, and more exciting destinations. We’re committed to California, where many of our team members call home, so it’s really special to be able to bring the benefits of full autonomy to even more people in San Francisco and Los Angeles.”

Pushing boundaries 

After removing the waitlist for our San Francisco service in June, we’ve seen incredible demand from locals and visitors alike. Now, our SF operations cover 55 square miles of the Bay Area – from Fisherman’s Wharf to Serramonte Center – and connect to the Daly City and Colma BART Stations, so even more people can ride. 

Since beginning commercial operations in Los Angeles in March, we’ve had more than 150 thousand people sign up for the waitlist and have been scaling deliberately to align our vehicle supply with rider demand. Angelenos have been enjoying their rides, as the average trip rating has remained above 4.7 out of 5 in that time. Now riders can explore a total of 79 square miles of LA County.

Waymo One is growing steadily, serving well over 50,000 paid rides per week across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. The Waymo Driver is trusted to help parents take their kids to school, vulnerable groups get home safely late at night, and seniors be even more independent, as they all experience the benefits of fully autonomous driving.

Scaling across multiple cities

In the past few months, we’ve commercially launched a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Los Angeles, added 90 square miles to our Metro Phoenix service, and begun curbside airport pickups and dropoffs at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

In total, members of the public have taken more than 2 million paid trips with Waymo, and our vehicles have driven more than 20 million miles fully autonomously. As our operations grow, so does evidence that Waymo is improving road safety and reducing traffic injuries and fatalities in the places where we operate. 

"Mothers Against Drunk Driving believes the safest choice when plans include alcohol is to designate a non-drinking driver before the first drink is consumed," said Patricia Rillera, MADD California State Executive Director and LA resident. "Today’s designated driver comes in many forms, and Waymo’s expansion across the San Francisco Bay Area and LA County offers an exciting new option for Californians to choose a safe ride home."

These expansions build on many years of rigorous testing and evaluation, and our decision to expand our service followed the careful and multilayered approach to safety set out in our safety framework.

Ready to ride? Download the Waymo One app on the App Store and Play Store now.