Waymo Scales To 500K Weekly Rides As It Eyes Personal Cars — 'There's A Path Of Convergence,' Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov Says

Waymo says it now provides about 500,000 rides per week, operating roughly 3,000 vehicles and covering more than 4 million fully autonomous miles weekly as it transitions from testing to large-scale deployment. The company runs in fully autonomous mode across 11 U.S. cities (public riders in 10) and plans launches in London and Tokyo this year. Management highlighted a path to put the Waymo Driver into personally owned cars and is rolling out a sixth-generation, lower-cost vehicle platform (with plans for the Hyundai Ioniq later in the year). Investors may view this as a meaningful commercialization and adoption milestone for autonomous-driving tech and the broader applied-AI stack, with implications for suppliers (LiDAR, sensors), automakers, and AI infrastructure providers as the industry shifts from research to real-world scale.