On August 4, 2026 Waymo removed the interest list for its Dallas service. From that date anyone in the city can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride, with no waitlist step in between. Waymo said it had welcomed nearly 150,000 riders in Dallas from the interest list since the service opened there in February 2026.
The company also set out what comes next in the market. It is continuing fully autonomous testing at Dallas Love Field Airport terminals and expects to serve travellers there. It will soon begin fully autonomous testing on Dallas freeways, which it describes as the final step before offering freeway routes to public riders.
Two details are worth separating. Dropping a waitlist is a capacity and confidence signal, not a coverage expansion: the service area, fleet size and vehicle availability are unchanged by the announcement, and Waymo did not publish figures for any of them. What the roughly six-month interest-list phase does establish is a repeatable launch pattern, gated entry to a metro area, then general availability, then the harder surfaces of airports and freeways.
For anyone tracking how quickly driverless ride-hailing becomes ordinary infrastructure outside its original California and Arizona footholds, the airport and freeway items are the ones to watch. Curbside airport access is where robotaxis start competing directly for the highest-value trips in a metro, and freeway operation is what makes suburban and cross-town trips practical rather than merely possible.