Waymo announced Tuesday that it now provides over 100,000 paid Robotaxi rides weekly in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix
Tekedra Mawakana, Waymo’s co-CEO, disclosed those figures in a social media post on X. The company has now disclosed a figure of 100,000, twice the previous figure.
On the company’s earnings call this summer, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed that Waymo provided more than 50,000 paid journeys weekly. This figure was also acknowledged in a June blog post by Waymo.
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Waymo has achieved that milestone by operating a fleet of hundreds of Jaguar I-Pace vehicles that are both fully autonomous and electric.
The company does not disclose fleet numbers in detail; however, the California Department of Revenue’s Freedom of Information Act request disclosed that the company has 778 robotaxis under its deployment permit.
It is uncertain whether or not some of those vehicles are currently operating in Phoenix.
Waymo has maintained a significant presence in Phoenix for an extended period and continued expanding there. However, its most significant expansion occurred in California, where it obtained the final remaining permits necessary to operate a commercial robotaxi service in August of last year.
Since then, Waymo has expanded its service to a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week operation throughout San Francisco and continues to expand into new regions of the expansive metropolis of Los Angeles.
Waymo has recently expanded its service to additional cities in the San Francisco Peninsula, including Daly City, and has begun testing its entirely autonomous vehicles on motorways in the region without a human safety driver.
Despite the anticipated delay in obtaining approval, the company is also increasing its efforts to facilitate retrieval and drop-offs at San Francisco International Airport.
The company has yet to impose a fee for driverless transportation in Austin, where it operates.
Waymo has never disclosed the quantity of revenue generated by commercial expansion. However, it also entails increasing expenses. In June, Alphabet, the parent company, announced it would allocate an additional $5 billion to its self-driving subsidiary in the coming years.
