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.
TOWARD DOOM48confidence 95/100
Why it moved the index
The same exact fifth-generation system was operating without an onboard driver across two metropolitan environments, demonstrating repeatable physical autonomy and deployment scaling. Access and operating domains remained constrained.
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- R1Toward 48 · confidence 95
New May 2022 cross-city rider-only deployment milestone for an existing exact model profile.
12 Aug 2026