Waymo has quietly registered Waymo Germany GmbH in Munich’s commercial register, with a stated purpose of deploying local robotaxi services and providing support for third-party autonomous vehicle operators. The entity was incorporated on 13 May and registered on 15 June, with its business address listed at Google’s Munich office; job postings for test drivers and vehicle trainers in Berlin and Munich have already appeared. No German launch date, or even a list of planned cities, has been announced thus far, nor are they likely to emerge in the coming weeks. Waymo’s standard international entry sequence—legal entity, mapping, local operator partnerships, regulatory engagement, supervised testing—means the GmbH is the first step in a process that typically takes months to years before public rides actually begin. In a statement to Bloomberg, the company said only that it is “engaging with officials around the world to explain our technology and lay the groundwork for global operations”. It also emphasised that London and Tokyo remain by far the more advanced of its international programmes: live commercial services are expecting to begin for the former later in 2026, while no target dates have yet been offered for the latter. In Tokyo, Waymo is conducting supervised data collection in partnership with local taxi operator Nihon Kotsu and the Go app across several central wards; in London, supervised vehicles are operating on public roads ahead of a driverless public service pending Department for Transport approval. Talks are also known to have taken place with Australian officials about future robotaxi deployments. It should be noted that Munich is not an arbitrary starting point. It is BMW’s home city, within an hour of Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart base, and also located in close proximity to Volkswagen’s software unit Cariad. Given Waymo’s disruptive outsider status, this home base is arguably one of