Waymo

Extracted Attributes

• Name

  Waymo LLC

• Type

  Autonomous driving technology company

• Co-CEOs

  Tekedra Mawakana, Dmitri Dolgov

• Mission

  Make it safe and easy for people and things to move around; save lives lost to traffic crashes; provide inclusive mobility; create sustainable, efficient transportation ecosystem

• Employees

  2500

• Simulator

  Waymo Carcraft (simulates 25,000 virtual cars in various city models)

• Former CEO

  John F. Krafcik

• Former Name

  Google Self-Driving Car Project

• Headquarters

  Mountain View, California, United States

• Fleet Vehicles

  Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan (early testing), electric Jaguar I-Pace SUVs (current 5th generation)

• Asset Valuation

  Considered a massively undervalued asset

• Core Technology

  In-house developed sensors, hardware-enhanced vision system, radar, lidar (360-degree views, lidar up to 300m, short-range lidar, radar for tracking objects)

• Pre-mapping Areas

  Orlando, Houston, San Antonio

• Total Funding Raised

  $11.1 billion (US$5.5 billion by 2022, additional $5.6 billion in 2024)

• Founders (of original project)

  Sebastian Thrun, Anthony Levandowski

• Planned Service Expansion Areas

  New York, Washington D.C., Tokyo, Japan

• Monthly Miles (as of April 2025)

  Over 1 million

• City Mapping Areas (as of July 2025)

  Boston, Nashville, New Orleans, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, San Diego

• Weekly Paid Rides (as of April 2025)

  Over 250,000

• Current Commercial Robotaxi Service Areas (as of 2025)

  Phoenix (Arizona), San Francisco (California), Silicon Valley (California), Los Angeles (California), Miami (Florida), Atlanta (Georgia), Austin (Texas)

Timeline

• Stanford Racing Team participates in DARPA Grand Challenge, laying groundwork for Waymo's origins. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2005

• Stanford Racing Team participates in DARPA Grand Challenge. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2007

• Google begins developing self-driving technology, led by Sebastian Thrun and Anthony Levandowski. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2009-01

• Google publicly reveals its self-driving car project after almost two years of road testing. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2010-10

• Google provides the world's first fully driverless ride on public roads. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2015-Fall

• The Google Self-Driving Car Project is rebranded as Waymo and spun out as a new subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., with John F. Krafcik leading the transition as CEO. (Source: Wikipedia, Wikidata, Web Search Results)

  2016-12-13

• Waymo begins testing its self-driving technology using a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2017

• Waymo conducts its first public trial of an autonomously driven vehicle in Phoenix, Arizona, and launches its Early Rider Program. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2017

• Waymo becomes the first company to offer public service without safety drivers in the vehicle. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2020-10

• Waymo raises US$5.5 billion in multiple outside funding rounds by this year. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022

• Waymo raises an additional $5.6 billion in funding. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024

• Waymo offers over 250,000 paid rides per week, totaling over 1 million miles monthly. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025-04

• Waymo operates commercial robotaxi services in Phoenix, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, and Austin, and is conducting city mapping for future services in various U.S. cities. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025-07

Waymo

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. Google's development of self-driving technology began in January 2009, 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. After almost two years of road testing, the project was revealed in October 2010. In fall 2015, Google provided "the world's first fully driverless ride on public roads". In December 2016, the project was renamed Waymo and spun out of Google as part of Alphabet. In October 2020, Waymo became the first company to offer service to the public without safety drivers in the vehicle. Waymo, as of 2025, operates commercial robotaxi services in Phoenix (Arizona), San Francisco (California), Silicon Valley (California), Los Angeles (California), Miami (Florida), Atlanta (Georgia), and Austin (Texas) with new services planned in New York, Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, Japan. City mapping in preparation for new services, as of July 2025, is taking place in various cites in the United States including, Boston, Nashville, New Orleans, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and San Diego, with pre-mapping preliminary work now in progress in Orlando, Houston, San Antonio. As of April 2025, it offers over 250,000 paid rides per week, totalling over 1 million miles monthly. Waymo is run by co-CEOs Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov. The company raised US$5.5 billion in multiple outside funding rounds by 2022 and raised $5.6 billion funding in 2024. Waymo has or had partnerships with multiple vehicle manufacturers, including Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Jaguar Land Rover, and Volvo Cars.

Web Search Results

• Waymo - ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics

  Waymo Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—is developing fully autonomous vehicles with the goal of making it easier and safer for people to get around. After designing and test-driving different vehicle configurations, the company now offers robot taxi service in multiple cities. Waymo (company began as Google's self-driving car project) Rate this Robot Overall Rating Would you want this robot? Appearance Did you know? [...] In December 2016, Google's self-driving car project was renamed Waymo and became a new subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet. That transition was led by John F. Krafcik, former president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America, who became Waymo's CEO. In 2017, Waymo started testing its self-driving technology using a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan. Later that year, Waymo carried its first public trial of an autonomously driven vehicle in Phoenix, Ariz. Still in 2017, Waymo filed a

• Waymo - Wikipedia

  Waymo Carcraft is a virtual world in which Waymo simulates driving conditions.( The simulator was named after the video game _World of Warcraft_.( With Carcraft, 25,000 virtual self-driving cars navigate through models of Austin, Texas; Mountain View, California; Phoenix, Arizona, and other cities.( [...] Waymo manufactures a suite of self-driving hardware developed in-house.( This includes sensors and hardware-enhanced vision system, radar, and lidar.( Sensors give 360-degree views while lidar detects objects up to 300 metres (980 ft) away.( Short-range lidar images objects near the vehicle, while radar is used to see around other vehicles and track objects in motion.( [...] In fall 2015, Google provided "the world's first fully driverless ride on public roads".( In December 2016, the project was renamed Waymo and spun out of Google as part of Alphabet.( In October 2020, Waymo became the first company to offer service to the public without safety drivers in the vehicle.( Waymo, as of 2025, operates commercial robotaxi services in Phoenix (Arizona), San Francisco (California), Silicon Valley (California),( Angeles (California),( Florida( Atlanta, Georgia, and

• Autonomous Driving Technology - Learn more about us - Waymo

  Waymo was established under Alphabet as a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. Image 30: Waymo Firefly vehicle ‘17 --- ### Waymo's Early Rider Program begins [...] Every year, 1.4M lives are lost to traffic crashes around the world. The status quo is not acceptable. Waymo is committed to holding safety to a higher standard. Because when we do, we make space for people to get around in a whole new way. On this path, we aim to offer freedom of movement for all, create a sustainable, efficient transportation ecosystem, and make the planet better than we found it. Image 22: Waymo One rider Image 23: Waymo One rider submenu-group

• Waymo - Self-Driving Cars - Autonomous Vehicles - Ride-Hail

  At Waymo, we believe the status quo is not acceptable. Our mission is to innovate beyond the impossible in order to save lives that are tragically lost to traffic crashes. We are driven to provide inclusive mobility that offers freedom of movement for all, working with our partners and communities to create an ecosystem that is sustainable, efficient, and audacious. We are passionate about improving the state of our planet to make it better than we found it.

• I Got Early Access to Waymo's Self-Driving Taxis. Here is what I ...

  If you've been in Los Angeles in recent months, you've likely seen one of Waymo's fully autonomous vehicles driving the roads. Waymo, formerly Google's driverless taxi arm, has been developing autonomous vehicle technology since 2015 and currently operates in Phoenix and San Francisco, with limited access offered in Los Angeles. When I was back home in LA for winter break, Waymo offered me a week of early access to its fleet of self-driving cars, an offer I was eager to take. [...] Currently in its 5th generation, Waymo's fleet is composed of electric Jaguar I-Pace SUVs retrofitted with cameras and sensors that make the vehicles easily identifiable from the outside. Waymo uses 29 cameras mounted on the sides and top of the car, six radar sensors tracking larger objects and four LiDAR sensors, which use laser pulses to "see" the car's surroundings in 3D. LiDAR provides a highly accurate scan of the car’s surroundings, even at night, since it doesn't depend on an external [...] Using Waymo is similar to requesting a ride on any standard rideshare app. You enter your pickup and dropoff location and any waypoints on the Waymo app, and the company dispatches a vehicle. The app allows you to select an exact location on the map for the car to stop (if safe) and even lets you choose the side of the street you'd like picked up on. The average wait time of around 15 minutes was longer than my usual experience with Uber or Lyft. When the vehicle arrives, you unlock it through

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• Country

  United States

• Founder

  Sebastian Thrun

• Employees

  2,500

• Instance Of

  Q4830453

• Headquarters

  Mountain View

• Inception Date

  12/13/2016

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 Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google. Waymo operates a commercial self-driving taxi service in the greater Phoenix, Arizona area. In October 2020, the company expanded the service to the public, and it was the only self-driving commercial service that operates without safety backup drivers in the vehicle at that time. Waymo also develops driving technology for use in other vehicles, including delivery vans and Class 8 tractor-trailers for delivery and logistics. Waymo is run by co-CEOs Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov. The company has raised $5.5 billion in multiple outside funding rounds. Waymo has partnerships with multiple vehicle manufacturers to integrate Waymo's technology, including with Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Nissan-Renault, Stellantis, Jaguar Land Rover, and Volvo.