Waymo
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Ownership
Alphabet/Google
Status
Live to the public in Phoenix & San Francisco, including paying public customers, & airport transfers (Phoenix). No minimum age (for guests), 18 for the booker.
Testing without drivers in Los Angeles & Austin.
Some early testing in Miami, New York, Washington DC and Seattle.
May 2024: 50,000 paid trips a week
Vehicles
Announced that Geely will be one of their robotaxi vehicle partners.
Source: https://blog.waymo.com/2021/12/expanding-our-waymo-one-fleet-with.html
Scale up
May 2023 - Across Waymo One, we are now serving over 10 thousand trips per week to public riders, not including employees. With this latest expansion, we intend for those numbers to accelerate rapidly to 10 times that scale by next summer (2024). More than 150 million people use ride-hail services in the U.S., and with Phoenix and San Francisco as two of the most lucrative and fastest-growing markets, Waymo One is well positioned for continued growth as we commercialize our technology.
Source: https://blog.waymo.com/2023/05/waymo-one-doubles-service-area-in.html
Customer experience
For an idea of their current (test) vehicles in Phoenix, these videos give a good introduction:
Distribution
Partnered with Uber - Source: https://blog.waymo.com/2023/05/waymo-and-uber-partner-to-bring-waymos.html
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