March 31, 2025
For years, the Waymo Open Dataset and associated Challenges have advanced research in autonomous driving, robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. Today, we are thrilled to announce our 6th round of Challenges, continuing to guide the community toward impactful innovations.
March 25, 2025
Waymo One, the world’s leading fully autonomous ride-hailing service, will be ready for riders in the nation’s capital on the Waymo One app in 2026.
March 12, 2025
Waymo One is providing hundreds of thousands of fully autonomous trips each week in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin. A new report examines how Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hailing enhances the tourism industry in San Francisco, and helps generate tens of millions of dollars in additional economic activity for the region.
February 13, 2025
As part of ongoing work to define and operationalize good driving, Waymo presents our latest research on Drivership — a framing concept that helps unpack the complexity behind the evaluation of good driving behavior — whether fully autonomous, human, or somewhere in between.
February 4, 2025
Today – on Transit Equity Day – Waymo is kicking off a transit credit pilot program in Los Angeles.
December 19, 2024
Today, we’re sharing our new cutting-edge research with Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, analyzing liability claims related to collisions from 25.3 million fully autonomous miles driven by Waymo. The study uses auto liability claims aggregate statistics as a proxy for at-fault collisions and expands on our previous research. It demonstrates that as we’ve scaled operations across Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin, the Waymo Driver significantly outperforms both the overall driving population and the latest generation of human-driven vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
December 18, 2024
2024 has been a year of incredible growth, connection, and learning for Waymo. We couldn’t be more grateful for our riders and the trust they’ve placed in us to serve over 150,000 trips every week.
