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Waymo 🌐

DoomBench currently associates 2 models and 15 evidence assessments with Waymo. Company attribution is separate from each model's version-specific risk score.

Tracked models
2
Evidence items
15
Toward-doom share
1.1%
Net index pressure
+0.65
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VERSION-SPECIFIC PROFILES

Models from Waymo

Availability distinguishes public artifacts, proprietary hosted access, internal systems, and profiles whose current source evidence remains inconclusive.

2 models Β· average 45.5
AI DOOM7550250 Β· NO AI
Average 45.5
46.4Waymo 🌐InternalWaymo Driver 5th generation44.5Waymo 🌐ClosedWaymo Driver 4th generation
Filtered company model comparison
ModelAvailabilityReleasedDoom Score
Waymo Driver 5th generationInternal30 Mar 202246.4
Waymo Driver 4th generationClosed08 Oct 202044.5
RELATED EVIDENCE

Latest assessments involving Waymo

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12 Nov 2024Deployment↑ TOWARD 48

Waymo opens Los Angeles robotaxis to everyone

Waymo removed its Los Angeles waitlist and opened 24-hour fully driverless rides to anyone across nearly 80 square miles after hundreds of thousands of paid trips.

Google πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈWaymo 🌐
Waymo β†—
25 Oct 2024Race↑ TOWARD 55

Waymo raises $5.6 billion to expand robotaxis

Waymo closed an oversubscribed $5.6 billion investment round led by Alphabet to expand fully autonomous ride-hailing and continue developing the Waymo Driver for additional applications.

Google πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈAndreessen Horowitz 🌐Fidelity Investments 🌐Perry Creek Capital 🌐Silver Lake 🌐T. Rowe Price 🌐Tiger Global Management 🌐Waymo 🌐
Waymo β†—
17 Oct 2024Deployment↑ TOWARD 54

Waymo exceeds 100,000 paid driverless rides per week

Waymo reported providing more than 100,000 paid public rides each week across Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles with no human driver in the vehicle.

Waymo 🌐
Waymo β†—
04 Oct 2024Deployment↑ TOWARD 44

Waymo and Hyundai agree to build robotaxi fleet at scale

Waymo and Hyundai entered a multi-year partnership to integrate the sixth-generation Waymo Driver into IONIQ 5 vehicles produced in significant volume for the Waymo One fleet.

Hyundai Motor Group 🌐Waymo 🌐
Waymo β†—
13 Mar 2024Deployment↑ TOWARD 55

Waymo opens fully autonomous rides to the Los Angeles public

Waymo began offering rider-only trips to selected members of the Los Angeles public across 63 square miles, with more than 50,000 people waiting to join the service.

Waymo 🌐
Waymo β†—
10 Aug 2023Autonomy↑ TOWARD 58

California authorizes paid 24-hour driverless service in San Francisco

California regulators approved Cruise and Waymo permits allowing paid driverless passenger service throughout San Francisco at all hours without a safety driver.

Cruise 🌐General Motors 🌐Waymo 🌐
California Public Utilities Commission β†—
10 Nov 2022Deployment↑ TOWARD 58

Waymo opens 24-hour rider-only service in downtown Phoenix

Waymo opened paid driverless rides in downtown Phoenix to anyone using its app, operating around the clock without an onboard safety driver.

Waymo 🌐Waymo Driver 5th generation
TechCrunch β†—
18 May 2022Deployment↑ TOWARD 48

Waymo expands fifth-generation Driver to rider-only operations

Waymo described round-the-clock fully autonomous ride-hailing in Phoenix and removing the human driver in San Francisco about a year after ramping fifth-generation Waymo Driver operations there.

Waymo 🌐Waymo Driver 5th generation
Waymo β†—
30 Mar 2022Autonomy↑ TOWARD 53

Waymo begins rider-only fifth-generation Driver trips in San Francisco

Waymo employees began taking San Francisco rides with nobody behind the wheel using the fifth-generation Waymo Driver, extending rider-only operations into dense urban streets.

Waymo 🌐Waymo Driver 5th generation
Waymo β†—
30 Sept 2021Deployment↑ TOWARD 41

California permits Cruise and Waymo to offer compensated autonomous services

California issued deployment permits allowing Cruise to receive compensation for driverless autonomous services in a restricted San Francisco domain and Waymo to charge for autonomous services with a safety driver.

Cruise 🌐Waymo 🌐
TechCrunch β†—
25 Aug 2021Deployment↑ TOWARD 35

Waymo opens fifth-generation autonomous rides to San Francisco testers

Waymo opened applications for its San Francisco Trusted Tester program, allowing selected public riders to hail fifth-generation Waymo Driver vehicles with an autonomous specialist onboard.

Waymo 🌐
Ars Technica β†—
10 Jun 2021Deployment↑ TOWARD 36

Waymo and J.B. Hunt begin autonomous freight trials in Texas

Waymo and J.B. Hunt began using Waymo Driver-equipped Class 8 trucks to carry customer freight on the I-45 corridor between Houston and Fort Worth under human supervision.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services 🌐Waymo 🌐
TechCrunch β†—
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