Driverless cab service Waymo coming to Pittsburgh
Driverless cabs are coming to Pittsburgh.
Autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo is expanding into the Steel City along with Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia, the California-based company announced in a blog post Wednesday.
Human-led test drives will start this week in Downtown Pittsburgh as Waymo confirms its technology works on the city’s roads.
The post didn’t say when Pittsburghers could start calling robotaxis. When the time comes, passengers will have to use an app, much like Uber.
Pittsburgh has a “special place in autonomous vehicle history,” the company noted, crediting Carnegie Mellon University as an early leader in driverless technology.
Waymo started as a project of Google, which is owned by Alphabet, before becoming its own Alphabet subsidiary in 2016. Since then, it has provided more than 10 million paid rides.
The company is operating in five markets — Austin, Atlanta, San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles — and is testing or planning to launch services in 21 more, including a few abroad.
Jack Troy is a TribLive reporter covering business and health care. A Pittsburgh native, he joined the Trib in January 2024 after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh. He can be reached at
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