Tesla Robotaxi Rival Waymo Now Operates In 10 Cities, Touts 200 Million Autonomous Miles Driven: Here's How Other Companies Fair

Alphabet Inc.-backed Waymo announced that it is present operating successful 10 cities arsenic the planetary robotaxi contention heats up.

The institution announced connected February 25 that it was rolling retired its autonomous ride-hailing work successful 4 caller cities: Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Orlando, taking the full fig of cities it operates successful to 10.

"Waymo is serving much riders than ever, arsenic we are connected way to service implicit 1 cardinal rides per week by the extremity of this year," Tekedra Mawakana, co-CEO of Waymo, said successful the authoritative connection released by the company.

The institution past reported having 450,000 rides per week. The aforesaid connection besides shared that the institution had recorded implicit 200 cardinal autonomous miles driven by its self-driving system.

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However, contempt its growth, Waymo has been nether scrutiny by the authorities aft aggregate incidents involving its autonomous vehicles. A Waymo "Ojai" Robotaxi crashed into respective parked vehicles successful California.

A Waymo robotaxi besides collided with a kid successful Santa Monica successful a schoolhouse zone. NHTSA has said that it is investigating implicit 3,000 Waymo autonomous vehicles pursuing these incidents.

Waymo's rival Tesla Inc. has besides been accelerating its robotaxi and autonomous conveyance efforts, arsenic the Elon Musk-led automaker precocious unveiled the company's Cybercab, which volition bid a terms tag of $30,000 oregon little and is acceptable to participate ramped-up accumulation successful April this year.

The Cybercab was besides spotted investigating connected a road successful Chicago, signalling affirmative shifts successful the company's AV efforts. However, challenges stay successful Tesla's Robotaxi roadmap aft the work successful Austin reported 5 further crashes successful January, taking the full fig of reported incidents to 14 since mid-2025.

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Musk has besides touted Tesla having the largest autonomous fleet successful the future, but the company's self-driving efforts person besides faced disapproval from investors similar Ross Gerber of concern steadfast Gerber Kawasaki.

Meanwhile, Waymo besides faces contention from Baidu Inc.-backed Robotaxi institution Apollo Go connected a planetary level, arsenic the Chinese institution announced it had reached the 300,000 robotaxi rides per week milestone amid an enlargement of the work into South Korea.