If you thought Waymo was on a roll before, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The robotaxi company under the big Alphabet (formerly Google) umbrella has apparently doubled the number of paid robotaxi trips it is providing in just three months.
Waymo announced yesterday that it is now providing more than 100,000 paid robotaxi trips per week, which is double what the company just reported in May. Is Waymo finally scaling up its self-driving and robotaxi services exponentially?
Is Waymo finally scaling up its self-driving and robotaxi services exponentially?
No.
For compariso’s sake, waymo claimed to be doing 50k rides per day back in July and Uber did 2.12 billion rides in 2023 or just under 40.8 million rides per day. Waymo is still a gadget, they still don’t have a general application to solving fully autonomous driving, let alone doing so everywhere.
So this news is either very very late and only meant for sensationalism, or the previous note about 50k rides per day was a complete fabrication based on a one time peak rate. Either way, one of them is nonsense which means neither of them is really meaningful.
