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2026 44

  1. Toyota and Waymo Advance Autonomous Driving Collaboration for Safer Streets and Freedom of Movement for All
  2. Las Vegas Raiders and Allegiant Stadium
  3. ¡Llegamos a Madrid! Waymo is coming to Spain
  4. Hello Toronto! Waymo is En Route
  5. Read more: Starting today, anyone in San Antonio, San Diego,
  6. Read more: We’re adding a new version of the Ojai to our grow
  7. Waymo Closes $5 Billion Debt Financing to Accelerate Business Expansion
  8. Sober Drivers Still Face Nearly 4x Nighttime Risk: Why Road Safety Demands a Safe System Approach
  9. Preparing for the Unexpected: A New Framework for AV Incident Management Exercises
  10. Media resources
  11. Our Vision for London: How Waymo can Support a Safer, Connected UK Capital
  12. latest analysis
  13. Read more: Across Waymo’s 270 million autonomous miles, the d
  14. Introducing transit rewards
  15. Read more: Nashville families, your transportation routine ju
  16. Singapore, Next Stop: Bringing Scalable, Safe Autonomous Mobility to the Lion City
  17. Building Waymo’s Risk and Insurance Foundation in Europe with Allianz Partners
  18. Opening our doors to Tokyo riders in 2027 with Nihon Kotsu and GO
  19. Vegas, Deal Us In! We’re welcoming riders today
  20. Welcoming our first riders in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa
  21. 10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million Fully Autonomous Miles
  22. Servus München: Waymo is Coming to Germany
  23. Setting the Global Standard for Privacy in Autonomous Mobility
  24. A look under our trunk: what’s in our compute
  25. Read more: Starting today, anyone in Houston can download the
  26. Read more: Starting today, Las Vegas travelers can catch thei
  27. Say hi to new Ojai in-car experience
  28. Not All Miles are Equal: Why Time and Location Matter When Benchmarking Autonomous Safety
  29. Driven by Purpose: What’s Your "Because"?
  30. Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience
  31. Introducing Waymo’s New Reference Model for Human Collision Avoidance
  32. A second life for EV batteries, clean energy for communities
  33. Same Driver, new vehicle: Welcoming our first riders trips in the Ojai
  34. Florida’s New Way to Ride: Waymo Opens to Everyone in Miami and Orlando
  35. Partnering with Waze to help cities patch their potholes
  36. Your Waymo ride, now arriving in Nashville
  37. Ready to Ride: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando
  38. Partnering with TechForce to support the workforce behind fully autonomous ride-hailing
  39. Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo Driver
  40. The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier For Autonomous Driving Simulation
  41. Accelerating our global growth: Waymo raises $16 billion investment round
  42. Clear skies and autonomous Waymo rides at SFO
  43. A commitment to transparency and road safety: event overview
  44. Miami, Your Waymo Ride Is Ready

2025 27

  1. Autonomously navigating the real world: lessons from the PG&E outage
  2. Delivering more for our riders in a year of incredible growth
  3. Demonstrably Safe AI For Autonomous Driving
  4. Safe, Routine, Ready: Autonomous driving in five new cities
  5. Taking riders further, safely with freeways
  6. Welcoming Steve Fieler as Waymo’s new CFO
  7. Independent Audits of Waymo’s Safety Case and Remote Assistance Programs
  8. Creating an all-weather Driver
  9. Your DoorDash Order, Delivered by Waymo
  10. Hello London! Your Waymo ride is arriving
  11. Waymo for Business: Trusted Daily Rides for Organizations
  12. Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft
  13. Bringing Waymo to more people, sooner
  14. Introducing our next city: Dallas
  15. Waymo teen accounts offer peace of mind for Phoenix families
  16. Advancing Vision Zero: Waymo’s Research on Speed and Seatbelt Safety Impact
  17. Safe to Deploy: How We Know The Waymo Driver Is Ready For The Road
  18. New Insights for Scaling Laws in Autonomous Driving
  19. Scaling our fleet through U.S. manufacturing
  20. New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer for those most at risk
  21. Waymo and Toyota Outline Strategic Partnership to Advance Autonomous Driving Deployment
  22. Cherry Blossoms and Waymo: New Beginnings in Japan
  23. Announcing the 2025 Waymo Open Dataset Challenges
  24. Next stop for Waymo One: Washington, D.C.
  25. Waymo’s Impact on the Tourism Economy
  26. Introducing Drivership: A New Framework for Good Driving
  27. On Transit Equity Day, Waymo announces a public transit credit program in LA

2024 25

  1. New Swiss Re study: Waymo is safer than even the most advanced human-driven vehicles
  2. That’s a Wrap! Waymo’s 2024 Year in Review
  3. Partnering with Nihon Kotsu and GO on our first international road trip
  4. Waymo's First Responder Program Receives Independent Safety Confirmation
  5. Next stop: Miami
  6. Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
  7. Protecting Vulnerable Road Users: New Insights from Waymo’s Safety Research
  8. Behind the Innovation: AI & ML at Waymo
  9. Introducing Waymo's Research on an End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous Driving
  10. Investing to bring the Waymo Driver to more riders
  11. Clean rides, clear benefits: Waymo launches new public transit credit program
  12. Waymo and Hyundai enter multi-year, strategic partnership
  13. Waymo and Uber expand partnership to bring autonomous ride-hailing to Austin and Atlanta
  14. New Data Hub Shows How Waymo Improves Road Safety
  15. Meet the 6th-generation Waymo Driver: Optimized for costs, designed to handle more weather, and coming to riders faster than before
  16. Expanding destinations for San Francisco and Los Angeles riders
  17. Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco
  18. Largest Autonomous Ride-Hail Territory in US Now Even Larger
  19. Why I Ride with Waymo: Ayesha Curry
  20. Fleet response: Lending a helpful hand to Waymo’s autonomously driven vehicles
  21. Phoenix residents can now experience Uber Eats delivery with the Waymo Driver
  22. Announcing the 2024 Waymo Open Dataset Challenges
  23. Scaling Waymo One safely across four cities this year
  24. Voluntary recall of our previous software
  25. From surface streets to freeways, safely expanding our rider-only testing

2023 28

  1. Dear Waymo Community: Reflections from this year together
  2. Waymo significantly outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7+ million miles of rider-only driving
  3. Road trip! How our cross-country testing helps advance the Waymo Driver
  4. The Waymo Driver: now available on Uber in Phoenix
  5. Waymo advances AI research with our multifunctional Waymax simulator
  6. Waymo One is going on tour in Los Angeles
  7. Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are significantly safer than human-driven ones, says new research led by Swiss Re
  8. Waymo’s next chapter in San Francisco
  9. Making green transportation accessible to all
  10. The Waymo Driver's Rapid Learning Curve
  11. Waymo One heads to Austin
  12. Doubling down on Waymo One
  13. Past the limit: Studying how often drivers speed in San Francisco and Phoenix
  14. The Waymo Driver is already improving road safety
  15. Waymo at CVPR 2023: At the cutting-edge of autonomous driving research
  16. Waymo and Uber partner to bring Waymo’s autonomous driving technology to the Uber platform
  17. Keeping riders and other road users safe with Safe Exit features
  18. Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix and continues growing in San Francisco
  19. Guided by the flow: The role of aerodynamics in shaping the Waymo Driver
  20. Expanding Waymo’s testing to the city that keeps it weird
  21. Paving the way toward a fully electric ride-hailing fleet
  22. Why I Ride with Waymo: David
  23. A Blueprint for AV Safety: Waymo’s Toolkit For Building a Credible Safety Case
  24. Driving Research Forward: The Waymo Open Dataset Updates and 2023 Challenges
  25. New vibes for your rides with iHeartRadio
  26. First Million Rider-Only Miles: How the Waymo Driver is Improving Road Safety
  27. Why I Ride with Waymo: Erik
  28. Why I Ride with Waymo: Maya

2022 29

  1. Wheels up for Waymo as we expand our 24/7 rider-only territories
  2. Waymo's Collision Avoidance Testing: Evaluating our Driver’s Ability to Avoid Crashes Compared to Humans
  3. What’s in the forecast: Using cutting-edge weather research to advance the Waymo Driver
  4. Making air travel more convenient at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport
  5. Next Stop for Waymo One: Los Angeles
  6. Launching the Waymo Accessibility Network
  7. Benchmarking AV Safety: Demonstrating how the Waymo Driver outperforms the collision responses of always attentive human drivers via industry-leading assessment methods
  8. Waymo and Swiss Re’s new research collaboration
  9. Welcoming Elisa de Martel, Waymo’s Chief Financial Officer
  10. Informing smarter lidar solutions for the future
  11. Why I Ride with Waymo: Eva
  12. New Waymo One features inspired by DOT's Inclusive Design Challenge
  13. Meet some of our summer 2022 interns
  14. Why I Ride with Waymo: John N.
  15. Waymo at CVPR 2022: A hub for real-world innovation and groundbreaking research
  16. Why I Ride with Waymo: Candace
  17. Waymo Via and Uber Freight partner to accelerate the future of logistics
  18. Why I Ride with Waymo: Ralph
  19. Cities, freeways, airports: How we've built a scalable autonomous driver
  20. Why I Ride with Waymo: Christine
  21. Why I Ride with Waymo: Dalibor
  22. Taking our next step in the City by the Bay
  23. To our fellow San Franciscans
  24. Expanding the Waymo Open Dataset with new labels and challenges
  25. Utilizing key point and pose estimation for the task of autonomous driving
  26. Enabling autonomous freight movement for C.H. Robinson’s customers
  27. How we ensure the Waymo Driver operates safely in San Francisco
  28. Why I Ride with Waymo: Rolinda
  29. Establishing a long-term alliance with J.B. Hunt for autonomous trucking

2021 38

  1. Accelerating mission velocity: Celebrating our progress in 2021
  2. Expanding our Waymo One fleet with Geely’s all-electric vehicle designed for riders first
  3. What we learned from our initial trial runs with J.B. Hunt
  4. Designed to deliver: Bringing the benefits of our 5th generation hardware to trucking
  5. Meet Waymo at CES 2022
  6. Waymo Via expands partnership with UPS to autonomous freight movement with Class 8 trucks
  7. A fog blog: Understanding a challenge inherent to driving in San Francisco
  8. Women on the ‘long haul’ of Waymo Via trucking
  9. Introducing the Waymo Driver to New York City’s streets
  10. The Waymo Driver Handbook: Teaching an autonomous vehicle how to perceive and understand the world around it
  11. Why I Ride with Waymo: John
  12. Common Waymo One Questions
  13. Back to School and Back to Basics with Waymonauts
  14. Addressing transit mobility gaps: What Waymo, Valley Metro and ASU learned from serving paratransit riders and seniors
  15. Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco
  16. How we’ve built the World’s Most Experienced Urban Driver
  17. Expanding our Waymo Via operations
  18. Simulation City: Introducing Waymo's most advanced simulation system yet for autonomous driving
  19. Why I Ride with Waymo: Sophia
  20. Waymo at CVPR 2021: Building the future of perception for autonomous vehicles
  21. Transforming mobility with the confidence of world-class investors
  22. Beyond the bike lane: How we've built the Waymo Driver to share the road with cyclists
  23. Waymo Via is working with J.B. Hunt to carry freight across Texas
  24. Why I Ride with Waymo: Ben & the Henderson Family
  25. Why I Ride with Waymo: Mike
  26. Why I Ride with Waymo: Barb
  27. Waymo’s Fully Autonomous Ride-Hailing Service Has New Features
  28. Capstone of my career: Email from John Krafcik to Waymonauts
  29. Expanding the Waymo Open Dataset with Interactive Scenario Data and New Challenges
  30. Replaying real life: how the Waymo Driver avoids fatal human crashes
  31. Why I Ride with Waymo: Jesse
  32. Expanding our testing in San Francisco
  33. Introducing: Black@Waymo
  34. Your Top Questions About Autonomous Vehicles and the Future, Answered
  35. From Girl Scout to Waymonaut
  36. Why I Ride with Waymo: Xavier
  37. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, Waymo team up to transport cookies
  38. Why you'll hear us saying fully autonomous driving tech from now on

2020 33

  1. How rider feedback shapes Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hailing service
  2. Building a safer mobility future
  3. Sharing our safety framework for fully autonomous operations
  4. Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fully autonomous trucks
  5. In the cab with the Waymo Driver: How trucks help advance our self-driving technology
  6. Waymo is opening its fully driverless service to the general public in Phoenix
  7. The Waymo Driver Handbook: How our highly-detailed maps help unlock new locations for autonomous driving
  8. The Waymo Driver’s training regimen: How structured testing prepares our self-driving technology for the real world
  9. Providing COVID-19 testing to our team in partnership with Verily
  10. Self-Driven Women: Building a community of women developing the future of mobility
  11. Racers on your mark: Creating a space for students to engage with the full self-driving stack
  12. Can Fully Autonomous Vehicles Help Drive Away Stress?
  13. Waymo and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) expand autonomous driving technology partnership
  14. Meet the Winners of the Waymo Open Dataset Challenges
  15. How Tech Works Into Phoenix's First, Last Mile Solutions
  16. Partnering with Volvo Car Group to scale the Waymo Driver
  17. 10 Innovations That Make Driving Safer, and What Comes Next
  18. Celebrating progress and recognizing the work that still needs to be done
  19. Key Conversations Checklist
  20. VectorNet: Predicting behavior to help the Waymo Driver make better decisions
  21. T. Rowe Price, Perry Creek Capital, Fidelity, and others join first round of investment in Waymo
  22. Catching up with the Waymo Via trucking team
  23. Resuming our driving operations in Phoenix
  24. Off road, but not offline: How simulation helps advance our Waymo Driver
  25. Helping from home: Waymo’s response to COVID-19
  26. In the driver's seat: footage from our 2009-2010 1,000 autonomous mile challenge
  27. Using automated data augmentation to advance our Waymo Driver
  28. Designing the 5th-generation Waymo Driver
  29. Announcing Waymo’s Open Dataset Virtual Challenges
  30. Introducing the 5th-generation Waymo Driver: Informed by experience, designed for scale, engineered to tackle more environments
  31. Waymo raises first external investment round
  32. Seeing is Knowing: Advances in search and image recognition train Waymo’s self-driving technology for any encounter
  33. Partnering with UPS to deliver on our mission

2019 45

  1. From hosted to host: The internship experience at Waymo
  2. Designing a new transportation reality with ArtCenter College of Design
  3. Waymo One: A year of firsts
  4. Why I Ride with Waymo: Micah
  5. Mission critical
  6. Safety at Waymo | It’s not magic, it’s Waymo’s engineering!
  7. Why I Ride with Waymo: Jordan
  8. Why I Ride with Waymo: Jean
  9. Why I Ride with Waymo: Bob
  10. Waymo teams up with AAA to teach kids about self-driving
  11. Why I Ride with Waymo: Nicole
  12. Waymo @ IAA Frankfurt 2019
  13. Why I Ride with Waymo: Winnie
  14. Let the races begin: Helping the next generation discover self-driving
  15. Driven by Waymo, Designed with Trust
  16. Safety at Waymo | Waymo and the Weather
  17. Waymo Open Dataset: Sharing our self-driving data for research
  18. Rain Testing in the Sunshine State
  19. Why I Ride with Waymo: The Gillespie Family
  20. Why Some Give and Take Could Help Self-Driving Cars Negotiate
  21. How Evolutionary Selection Can Train More Capable Self-Driving Cars
  22. Becky Bucich joins Waymo as Chief People Officer
  23. Giving back to our communities
  24. Why I Ride with Waymo: The Anthony Family
  25. Partnering with The Alliance in France, Japan, and beyond
  26. Stepping up to the plate for safety
  27. Opportunities for All @ Waymo
  28. Why I Ride with Waymo: Amy & Paul
  29. Partnering with Lyft to serve more riders in Metro Phoenix
  30. Safety at Waymo | Self-driving cars & other road users
  31. Making Waymos in Motor City
  32. Android users: Download the Waymo app and sign up to ride
  33. EmTech Digital Recap: How AI Makes Self-Driving Cars Possible
  34. Por qué uso Waymo: Priscilla
  35. Expanding our Footprint in Arizona: Waymo’s Technical Service Center in Mesa
  36. Waymo & AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah team up to educate the public on self-driving
  37. Celebrating International Women’s Day @ Waymo
  38. Bringing 3D perimeter lidar to partners
  39. Why I Ride with Waymo: Roger & Sharon
  40. Building Our Collective Future
  41. Waymo @ Watermark
  42. An update on Waymo disengagements in California
  43. Growing our team and business in Michigan
  44. AutoML: Automating the design of machine learning models for autonomous driving
  45. Why I Ride with Waymo: Shawn

2018 21

  1. Learning to Drive: Beyond Pure Imitation
  2. Riding with Waymo One today
  3. Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey
  4. Why I Ride with Waymo: Alex
  5. Waymo welcomes first Chief Safety Officer and Chief Commercial Officer
  6. Waymo Joins MADD to Tie One On For Safety
  7. The very human challenge of safe driving
  8. A Green Light for Waymo’s Driverless Testing in California
  9. Why I Ride with Waymo: Samantha
  10. Where the next 10 million miles will take us
  11. Why I Ride with Waymo: Lilla
  12. Getting ready for more early riders in Phoenix
  13. Partnering with Valley Metro to explore public transportation solutions
  14. Growing Waymo’s Partnerships in Metro Phoenix
  15. Waymo’s early rider program, one year in
  16. Google I/O Recap: Turning self-driving cars from science fiction into reality with the help of AI
  17. Meet our newest self-driving vehicle: the all-electric Jaguar I-PACE
  18. Same driver, different vehicle: Bringing Waymo self-driving technology to trucks
  19. Recreating the self-driving experience: the making of the Waymo 360° video
  20. Waymo reaches 5 million self-driven miles
  21. The world’s longest and toughest ongoing driving test

2017 17

  1. Waymo’s fleet reaches 4 million self-driven miles
  2. Waymo’s fully self-driving vehicles are here
  3. Michigan is Waymo’s winter wonderland
  4. Waymo’s Safety Report: How we’re building a safer driver
  5. Let’s Talk Self-Driving Cars
  6. What’s inside this trunk helps power our self-driving minivans
  7. How simulation turns one flashing yellow light into thousands of hours of experience
  8. Scenes from the street, August 2017
  9. Beating the Heat: Thermal Testing in Death Valley
  10. Recognizing the sights and sounds of emergency vehicles
  11. Well-oiled and squeaky-clean: Partnering with Avis to maintain our self-driving fleet
  12. From post-it note to prototype: The journey of our Firefly
  13. Apply to be part of Waymo’s early rider program
  14. From pro-snowboarder to Waymo Engineer
  15. A note on our lawsuit against Otto and Uber
  16. Introducing Waymo’s suite of custom-built, self-driving hardware
  17. Accelerating the pace of learning

2016 28

  1. A first look at our Waymo fully self-driving Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans
  2. A better view on how our vehicles make a right on turn on red
  3. A need for the right speed: finding a pace for learning
  4. A record month in miles
  5. Building in layers of safety in a self-driving car
  6. Building maps for a self-driving car
  7. Distracted Driving
  8. Getting the green light in Austin
  9. Getting to know our neighbors in the Valley of the Sun
  10. How do we prepare for rare and odd situations on the road? By following these 3 steps.
  11. Keeping motorcyclists safe
  12. Making sure our software won’t get spooked by vampires
  13. Mastering the three point turn
  14. On the ground in Austin
  15. On the road with self-driving car user number one
  16. Reliving the past: How these data centers drive us three million miles each day
  17. Safely sharing the road with cyclists
  18. Say hello to Waymo: what’s next for Google’s self-driving car project
  19. Scenes from the street, March 2016
  20. Scenes from the street, June 2015
  21. Scenes from the street, December 2016
  22. Scenes from the street, July 2015
  23. Scenes from the streets
  24. Sensing in the rain. The limits of self-driving in sunny California.
  25. Sounds of the self-driving car
  26. Top 5 questions about self driving cars in Austin
  27. Two million miles closer to a fully autonomous future
  28. Why we’re aiming for fully self-driving vehicles