Waymo picks Toronto as its first Canadian city, targets first public riders in 2028
From the Robots digest for 2026-10-16
What happened: Electrek reports (published October 16, ~8:07 AM ET) that Waymo has picked Toronto as its first Canadian city — the robotaxis will "start driving the city's streets in the coming days," mapping/testing movement rather than a commercial launch, with the company targeting its first public riders in 2028. The piece counts Toronto as Waymo's fourth announced market outside the US, after London, Tokyo and Singapore.
What's genuinely new: A debut on the robots record — the closest on-file robotaxi lineage is the Cybercab federal-audit thread, which is Tesla-internal, and no Waymo expansion storyline exists on file. First Canadian city, first announced 2028 riding target, and the piece's own catch: Ontario does not yet have rules for a commercial driverless service, so the timeline runs on regulatory catch-up.
Watch: Ontario's commercial-driverless framework, what the street-driving phase produces, and whether the 2028 public-riders target holds.
Links: Electrek