Waymo pulls way ahead
What began as "project chauffeur" at Google in 2009 became a publicly available, commercial robotaxi service across multiple U.S. cities this year.

The project, rebranded as Waymo in 2016, has now completed more than 5 million autonomous trips in total, the company said last week. That's about a sevenfold increase from November 2023, when Waymo said it had completed around 700,000 driverless ride-hailing trips.