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String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding.
For this reason, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems. The bottleneck is iterated contact with reality.
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Waymo now available to anybody in Atlanta 🍑 through the Uber app, bringing our city count up to 5! In SF, LA, Phoenix, Austin, and now Atlanta, you don’t need an invite code to ride 😉
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Moooove, get out the way! 🚗💨 @Ludacris & @MissyElliott just took their first ride in a @Waymo on @Uber — right in the heart of Atlanta. #SupaDupaFlyMode rolls out today 🛸🍑
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It’s official: Waymo One will be ready to serve Washington, D.C. next year! 🇺🇸 waymo.com/blog/2025/03/next-…
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Exciting new @Waymo milestone: Waymo One is now serving 200k+ paid trips each week across LA, Phoenix and SF - that’s 20x growth in less than two years! Up next: Austin, Atlanta and Miami.
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Take a look at this recent #FiveStarRide in #SF. Our riders remind us everyday why we must do what we do.
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Current state of Waymo in Phoenix
- Now regularly seeing my social circle, male and female, looking to it first
- Parents now comfortable sending their kids to school and elsewhere. This is a major vibe shift. Early on, women solo riders were the loudest champions. But parents are overtaking that. Effusive praise e.g. “I have my freedom back!”
- Biggest impediment to growth is that they go slower. Which of course is because they don’t speed and don’t run red lights
- Perception that Waymo makes other drivers drive safer
- Now regularly seeing Waymo convoys
- First anecdote effect dissipating. When someone sees their first minor error from Waymo, it is jarring. But then a long time elapses until they see their second. And that builds intuition that it is rare, and points the finger at how much more common errors are from human drivers
- People are asking when they can order Waymo via either Lyft or Uber
- People seeing how fast the AI tools are improving is bringing the “Waymo right now is the worst it will ever be” conclusion
Phoenix is Waymo’s most mature market, now 8 years into public availability. It’s a big reason why we chose Phoenix (Tempe) for the first Culdesac.
The May 2023 launch of the Jaguar platform was a seminal moment in the history of AV Ridehail going mainstream. And AV Ridehail is going to drive the largest change to cities in decades.
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Operating in different cities is critical for unlocking greater scale as we develop our generalizable Driver. Looking forward to visiting so many new cities this year!
On the road again: As Waymo prepares for broader scale, we're embarking on our largest road trip to date, visiting 10+ cities in 2025. First up: Las Vegas and San Diego.
Read more about how our road trips help advance the Waymo Driver's AI: waymo.com/blog/2023/11/road-…
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Wheels up! @Waymo is embarking on our first international road trip next year in Japan. As the world’s largest city (37 million in the metro area!), we can’t wait to see the Driver generalize to a new environment and explore the possibilities AVs can offer.
こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with @Nihonkotsu_Taxi and @go_goesnext, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip. Read more: waymo.com/blog/2024/12/partn…
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We recently began serving riders in Austin, and it’s great to see the safety benefits of the @Waymo Driver already playing out for both our riders and other road users.
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Miami, are you ready? 🌴 Through our fleet partnership with @Moove_io we'll work to open our doors to Miami riders in 2026, offering a safe and accessible EV transportation option. waymo.com/blog/2024/12/next-…
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This week's S³ features @AstroMechanica: a new startup ushering in the electric-adaptive age — where supersonic, electric jets cross the Atlantic.
This is the first time their new engine has ever been shared publicly.
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We’re excited to announce a new partnership with @Hyundai_Global to integrate our fully autonomous tech into Hyundai’s all-electric IONIQ 5 for our Waymo One fleet. waymo.com/blog/2024/10/waymo…



















