Waymo LLC, formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, is an American autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company. The company’s mission is to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. Waymo operates commercial robotaxi services available to the public in Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin, and Miami. As of December 2025, it operates over 450,000 rides per week, and by February 2026, had logged 200 million miles on public roads driven fully autonomously. In February 2026, Waymo raised a $16 billion investment round, valuing the company at $126 billion. The company is laying the groundwork to expand to over 20 cities, including London and Tokyo.
Waymo began in 2009 as the Google self-driving car project. The project was spun out into a separate subsidiary company of Alphabet called Waymo in December 2016. The co-CEOs of Waymo are Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov. Waymo's primary product is Waymo Driver, a software and hardware suite that enables Level 4 autonomous driving, meaning no rider supervision or intervention is required. The company has also partnered with Uber to provide rides in Austin, with plans to expand to Atlanta. In a recent Senate hearing, Waymo revealed that it uses remote workers in the Philippines to assist its self-driving cars. Waymo is testing its technology in Nashville, with the intention of opening up rides to the public sometime in 2026.