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Waymo

Waymo LLC
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryAutonomous cars
PredecessorGoogle Self-Driving Car Project
Founded
  • 2004 (2004) (as Stanford Self-Driving Car Team)
  • January 17, 2009 (January 17, 2009) (as the Google Self-Driving Car Project)
  • December 13, 2016 (2016-12-13) (as Waymo)
Founder
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
,
United States
Area served
Key people
Number of employees
2,500 (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
Parent
Websitewaymo.com
Waymo Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid undergoing testing in the San Francisco Bay Area (2017)

Waymo LLC, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a subsidiary of Google's parent company (Alphabet Inc).

The company traces its origins to the Stanford Racing Team, which competed in the 2005 and 2007 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenges.[4] Google's development of self-driving technology began in January 2009,[5][6] led by Sebastian Thrun, the former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), and Anthony Levandowski, founder of 510 Systems and Anthony's Robots.[7][8] After almost two years of road testing, the project was revealed in October 2010.[9][10][11]

In fall 2015, Google provided "the world's first fully driverless ride on public roads".[12] In December 2016, the project was renamed Waymo and spun out of Google as part of Alphabet.[13] In October 2020, Waymo became the first company to offer service to the public without safety drivers in the vehicle.[14][15][16][17] Waymo, as of 2025, operates commercial robotaxi services in Phoenix (Arizona) , San Francisco (California), Silicon Valley (California),[18] Los Angeles (California),[19], Miami, Florida[2] and Austin, Texas[20] with new services planned in Atlanta, Georgia and Tokyo, Japan.[21][22] As of April 2025, it offers over 250,000 paid rides per week, totalling over 1 million miles weekly.[18][23]

Waymo is run by co-CEOs Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov.[24] The company raised US$5.5 billion in multiple outside funding rounds[25] by 2022 and raised $5.6 billion funding in 2024.[26] Waymo has or had partnerships with multiple vehicle manufacturers, including Stellantis,[27] Mercedes-Benz Group AG,[28] Jaguar Land Rover,[29] and Volvo Cars.[30]

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  2. ^ a b "WAYMO IN MIAMI: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SELF-DRIVING CARS IN THE MAGIC CITY". The Elser Hotel. April 3, 2025. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  3. ^ Kolodny, Jennifer Elias,Lora (December 17, 2024). "Waymo to begin testing in Tokyo, its first international destination". CNBC.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  14. ^ "Waymo launches its first commercial self-driving car service". Engadget. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  15. ^ White, Joseph (October 8, 2020). "Waymo opens driverless robo-taxi service to the public in Phoenix". Reuters. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  16. ^ "Waymo Relaunches Driverless Ride Sharing". All About Arizona News. October 12, 2020. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
  17. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (December 9, 2019). "Waymo's driverless car: ghost-riding in the back seat of a robot taxi". The Verge.
  18. ^ a b Love, Julia (March 17, 2025). "Alphabet's Waymo to Offer Self-Driving Rides in Silicon Valley". Bloomberg. Retrieved March 13, 2025.
  19. ^ Knoll, Corina (March 20, 2024). "When Nobody Is Behind the Wheel in Car-Obsessed Los Angeles". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2024.
  20. ^ Muller, Joann (March 4, 2025). "Waymo autonomous vehicles launch on Uber network in Austin". Axios.
  21. ^ "Uber Opens Up Its Waymo Robotaxi Waitlist in Atlanta". CNET.
  22. ^ "Waymo to Begin Autonomous Vehicle Testing in Tokyo in 2025". beijingtimes.com. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
  23. ^ Korosec, Kirsten (February 27, 2025). "Waymo has doubled its weekly robotaxi rides in less than a year". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
  24. ^ "Waymo CEO John Krafcik steps aside as co-CEO's take over". CNBC. April 2, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
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  26. ^ Kolodny, Lora (October 25, 2024). "Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo closes $5.6 billion funding round as robotaxi race heats up in the U.S." CNBC. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
  27. ^ Andrew J. Hawkins (November 7, 2017). "Waymo is first to put fully self-driving cars on US roads without a safety driver". The Verge. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  28. ^ Daimler Trucks partners with Waymo to build self-driving semi trucks, TechCrunch, October 27, 2020
  29. ^ Bergen, Mark; Naughton, Keith (April 2, 2018). "Waymo isn't going to slow down now". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
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