First public driverless robotaxi
2020-10Waymo
Waymo One opened fully driverless rides to the public in Phoenix.
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Waymo
Profile
Alphabet's robotaxi unit; US leader in paid driverless rides and miles.
Editorial profile — compiled by us from public sources.
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, CA, US
Current standings
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Roadmap & milestones
Paid driverless approved in San Francisco
2023-08Waymo
Regulators allowed 24/7 paid driverless service in a major dense city.
Statewide driverless authority across 18 California counties
2026-08Waymo / California Public Utilities Commission
The CPUC cleared Waymo on 14 Aug 2026 to charge for fully driverless rides across 18 counties — 12 in the north (the whole Bay Area plus Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Sonoma and others) and six in the south (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura) — opening Sacramento and San Diego as new markets. The authority covers freeways, city streets, rural roads and rail crossings, day or night, in rain, fog and hail; only widespread snow or ice is excluded. It is permission, not deployment: Waymo says the rollout stays measured, so most of the approved territory has no service yet.
Waymo pauses all freeway robotaxi rides
2026-05Waymo
Waymo suspended all freeway rides (San Francisco, LA, Phoenix, Miami) to improve construction-zone handling, after recalling 3,791 vehicles over flooded-roadway incidents — a notable safety pullback on its hardest driving domain.
100M fully autonomous miles
2025-07Waymo
Crossed 100M rider-only miles, doubling from 50M in seven months.
450,000+ paid rides per week
2025-12Waymo
Roughly 1M rides a month across 10+ US cities, widening its lead.
