Waymo

Waymo LLC (/weɪmoʊ/ WAY-moh) is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company. Waymo operates commercial robotaxi services available to the public in Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin, and Miami. As of December 2025, it operates over 450,000 rides per week, and by February 2026 had logged 200 million miles on public roads driven fully autonomously.

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. After almost two years of road testing, the project was revealed in October 2010. 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 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. In February 2026, Waymo raised a $16 billion funding round that valued the company at $126 billion.

In January 2026, The National Transportation Safety Board and NHTSA opened investigations into Waymo's robotaxis for recurring incidents of illegally passing stopped school buses, and one incident where a Waymo hit a child who ran out from behind a parked SUV in a school zone.