Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said during the company’s first-quarter earnings call that Waymo’s weekly fully autonomous ride volume has doubled in less than a year.
Waymo has exceeded 500,000 fully autonomous rides per week, according to Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai on the company’s Q1 earnings call. Pichai said the figure represents a doubling in less than a year, indicating rapid growth in commercial deployment of fully driverless ride-hailing services. Fully autonomous rides refer to trips completed without a human driver operating the vehicle, a milestone often used to measure adoption and operational scale in self-driving transportation.