Waymo said on Sept. 14, 2026, that residents and visitors in Las Vegas can begin taking fully autonomous public trips on its robotaxi service, the Alphabet unit's first public riders in Nevada. Waymo is starting small, with invitation-only rides in a limited area around the Strip, in a city where other robotaxi services already run. A news report called Las Vegas Waymo's 15th commercial market.
The company says it will invite riders on a rolling basis after more than 100,000 people expressed interest. News reports describe a start with dozens of Ojai minivans and a gradual release of access codes, a pattern Waymo has used in other cities.
Waymo places the first service area from Boulder Junction up the Strip to Sahara Avenue, and between the edge of Spring Valley and Winchester, about 24 miles of coverage. Waymo says Las Vegas joins Denver and San Diego as cities where Ojai vehicles, run by the sixth-generation Waymo Driver, its self-driving system, will make up most of the fleet.
Zoox was already offering paid robotaxi rides in Las Vegas, according to news reports. One report said the Nevada Transportation Authority has approved commercial robotaxi operations in Clark County, and Waymo may operate up to 1,000 self-driving vehicles there over the next year under that permit, alongside separate limits for Tesla and for Uber's partners.
Waymo cites a safety record saying the Waymo Driver is involved in 94% fewer crashes causing serious injury or worse than human drivers over the same distance. That is Waymo's own comparison, not a regulator's finding on the Las Vegas launch.
It is not yet clear how fast invitation-only access will open to the whole city, whether Clark County's roads can absorb several robotaxi fleets without crowding corridors already shared with Zoox, or how Waymo's Strip service will compare with the airport-focused and other services already running in Las Vegas.