Waymo Driver 5th generation
READER SUMMARYWaymo's fifth-generation autonomous-driving system deployed in rider-only San Francisco trips.
Why this model scores 55.4
The system autonomously controlled full-size vehicles in complex public traffic, producing high autonomy and moderate control difficulty. Employee-only access and a bounded service area constrained deployment and misuse.
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The model score of 55.4 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 60.4 measures the recalibrated complete evidence corpus. These values answer different questions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Model score history
- R3Doom Score 55.4
Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260812-004803-november-2022-incremental under bounded-corpus-v2.
12 Aug 2026 - R2Doom Score 53.3
Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260812-012950-may-2022-incremental under bounded-corpus-v2.
12 Aug 2026 - R1Doom Score 50.4
New exact deployed Waymo Driver generation with original operational timestamp and five evidence-based inputs.
12 Aug 2026