Early rides in the new Texas and Florida cities will be offered to select customers who have downloaded the Waymo app. The service will open up for everyone later this year.

Waymo added driverless taxi service to 4 new US cities today, a month after starting service in Miami. Meanwhile, Tesla is going backwards.

There’s also skepticism from London’s famed black cab drivers, who must pass a grueling training course known as “The Knowledge,” which requires memorizing hundreds of routes and takes years to ...