[Animats]

Right. In the US, once the top 12 taxi markets have been served, Waymo will have most of the industry.[1] That's all the cities with more than 1000 taxis. Serve the next 10 cities, and it's down to Saginaw, MI, with 41 taxis.

In San Francisco, Waymo has passed Lyft and is gaining on Uber.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxis_of_the_United_States

[jsnell]

> Serve the next 10 cities, and it's down to Saginaw, MI, with 41 taxis.

That is not a credible data set (it's missing 5 of the top 10 cities by population, which just can't reflect reality).

Hell, the Wikipedia article isn't even internally consistent, several of the cities earning a full section have no entry in that table.

[Macha]

Given these counts are all individually sourced to different articles (or not sourced at all in some cases), I suspect that wikipedia list is rather incomplete. For example, I suspect Birmingham, Alabama, to pick a city at random, has more than the 41 taxis of the 20th placed in Wikipedia's list.

[actinium226]

Other have already pointed out that some of the most populous cities in the US aren't on that list, but also if the autonomous can be cheaper and/or more reliable we might see people using them more.

[skywhopper]

Uh, that list is wildly incomplete. There are 240 metro areas bigger than Saginaw, Michigan in the United States.

[fragmede]

City vs metropolitan area vs CSA. Where cities are a legal jurisdiction, and self driving cars need a license to operate fully autonomously, legal city limits are the thing to look at, not the wider area that gets considered when eg LA is colloquially described.