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The world's most experienced autonomous driver
HQ: Mountain View, CA, United States | Founded: 2009 | Employees: 2,500+ | Stage: Late Stage VC - Alphabet Subsidiary | Website: https://waymo.com
Waymo began in 2009 as the Google Self-Driving Car Project led by Sebastian Thrun, Dmitri Dolgov and Anthony Levandowski, and was spun out as Waymo LLC under Alphabet in December 2016. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company developed the Waymo Driver, an integrated autonomous stack of custom LiDAR, radar, cameras, compute and software now in its 5th generation. After logging 30M+ autonomous miles and 127M+ miles for safety evaluation (90% fewer serious crashes vs. human drivers), Waymo launched Waymo One, the first public commercial robotaxi service, and operates a growing fleet of all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles with next-gen Zeekr RT platform in production.
Waymo One provides fully driverless ride-hailing in Phoenix (including Sky Harbor Airport), San Francisco, Los
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