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Monday, January 8, 2024

From surface streets to freeways, safely expanding our rider-only testing

Waymo will begin testing its fully autonomous passenger cars without a human driver on freeways in Phoenix to soon help Waymo One riders get where they’re going safely and efficiently. Just as we've taken a phased approach to rolling out our technology and operations in the past, we will continue to deploy in a step-by-step manner, first providing rider-only trips to our employees on freeways across Phoenix.

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Dear Waymo Community: Reflections from this year together

Dear Waymo community,

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7+ million miles of rider-only driving

Safety leads everything we do at Waymo. This year alone, Waymo has served over 700,000 ride-hailing trips with public riders and no human driver. We couldn’t have hit that milestone without putting safety front and center, and we are working hard to improve the measurement, transparency, and performance of our fleet.

Monday, November 6, 2023

Road trip! How our cross-country testing helps advance the Waymo Driver

Experience is the best teacher, no matter if you're learning to drive a car or getting to know a new city. The Waymo Driver — our core set of technology comprised of hardware and software that enables autonomous driving — has multiple lifetimes of experience navigating the real world and helping people and things get where they're going safely. To bring the benefits of our technology to more people in more places and deliver on our mission to improve road safety, we take the Waymo Driver on road trips to regions where the driving culture and conditions differ from the areas we regularly operate.

Thursday, October 26, 2023

The Waymo Driver: now available on Uber in Phoenix

Good news, Phoenix. There’s now another way to catch a ride with the Waymo Driver.

Starting today, Uber customers can get matched with a fully autonomous, all-electric Waymo ride — with no human driver behind the wheel—in the 225+ square miles of Metro Phoenix where Waymo currently operates.

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Waymo advances AI research with our multifunctional Waymax simulator

At Waymo we are continuously pushing the boundaries of AI innovation and contributing to the research community, which is why today we are announcing Waymax – a lightweight simulator developed specifically for autonomous driving research.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Waymo One is going on tour in Los Angeles

Waymo One, our 24/7 autonomous ride-hailing service, is going on tour across Los Angeles. Beginning in October, residents and visitors will have a chance to score early access tickets to take fully autonomous Waymo One rides in LA neighborhoods ahead of a wider service launch.