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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the autonomous-driving desk.
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Waymo says it is preparing a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in the Region of Madrid, with first riders targeted for 2027. Its initial work will use manually driven vehicles before technical validation with trained local specialists.
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Waymo says it will begin manually driven mapping and testing in Toronto as it prepares an autonomous ride-hailing service, with first riders targeted for 2028. Element Fleet Management will provide fleet services and support local hiring.
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Waymo says anyone in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa can now hail a fully autonomous ride through its app. The service includes San Antonio International Airport.
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Waymo says anyone in Houston can now use its app to request a fully autonomous ride. The company says more than 100,000 riders from its interest list had used the service since it opened in February.
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Waymo says it has closed its first debt financing: a $5 billion term loan. The company plans to use the capital to support expansion of its autonomous ride-hailing service in the United States and internationally.
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Waymo says its analysis found that sober drivers’ fatal-crash risk at night was 3.1 to 3.9 times the daytime risk. A separate analysis of US fatal crashes found that safety risks often overlap rather than arise from human behaviour alone.
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Waymo says its autonomous vehicles were involved in 82% fewer injury-causing crashes than human-driver benchmarks across more than 270 million miles in five US cities. The company estimates that 841 injury-causing crashes were prevented.
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Waymo says teens aged 13–17 can hail fully autonomous rides across 50 square miles of Nashville when linked to a parent or guardian’s account. The company lists trip-status sharing, automatic receipts and specially trained Rider Support agents among the account features.
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Lucid and Bolt have announced a partnership to develop and deploy at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles across European cities. The planned fleet will use a vehicle platform designed for SAE Level 4 autonomy and is expected to use NVIDIA Hyperion.
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Waymo says it is working with Singapore’s Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority to prepare an all-electric autonomous ride-hailing service. The company plans local operations in the coming months, a readiness phase in 2027 and an intended public launch through the Waymo app in 2028.
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Waymo, Nihon Kotsu and GO have agreed to prepare a commercial fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Tokyo for 2027. The launch depends on regulatory approvals and further validation of the technology and operating model.
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Waymo has opened its first public autonomous ride-hailing service in Las Vegas, covering a nearly 24-mile area. The rollout uses Ojai vehicles powered by the company’s sixth-generation Waymo Driver and will expand across Clark County in stages.
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Lyft and Waymo say Nashville riders can now be matched with fully autonomous Waymo vehicles through the Lyft app. The service initially covers parts of central Nashville and will share a dynamically managed fleet with the Waymo app.
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Waymo says its fully autonomous vehicles were involved in substantially fewer serious-injury, airbag-deployment and injury-related crashes than human drivers in the same operating areas and period, based on more than 220 million miles.
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Waymo's company-authored account describes how multimodal sensing, HD maps, independent validation, simulation, AI evaluation and continuous retraining shape its autonomous-driving system, while providing no independent safety comparison.