Autonomous vehicle company (Alphabet subsidiary)
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Industry leader with 450,000+ weekly paid rides across five US cities
Nvidia and Uber announced a plan to deploy 100,000 Level 4 autonomous robotaxis across 28 cities on four continents by 2028, using Nvidia's new DRIVE Hyperion 10 computing platform and an open-source reasoning model called Alpamayo. Five automakers—BYD, Geely, Stellantis, Lucid, and Mercedes-Benz—will manufacture vehicles with Nvidia's hardware pre-installed. Commercial rides begin in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the first half of 2027.
Updated 3 hours ago
Leading United States robotaxi operator, rapidly expanding
For years, autonomous vehicle companies kept a basic operational question unanswered: how many humans does it actually take to run a driverless fleet? On February 4, 2026, Waymo's chief safety officer told a Senate committee the number. At any given moment, roughly 70 remote agents oversee Waymo's entire fleet of more than 3,000 vehicles across six American cities — a ratio of about one human for every 43 robotaxis.
Updated Feb 21
Operating fully driverless robotaxis in multiple cities
Tesla promised its robotaxis would be safer than human drivers. Seven months into its Austin pilot, the company's own crash reports tell a different story: one collision per 55,000 miles, roughly nine times worse than the human average. Every crash occurred with a trained safety monitor in the vehicle who could intervene—yet the system still failed. On February 3, 2026, Tesla executives defended the program before a Senate committee, insisting autonomous systems are safer than human drivers despite the data.
Updated Feb 5
Market leader with 450,000 weekly paid rides across five U.S. cities
MIT Technology Review named robotaxis a breakthrough technology on January 3, 2025, marking the moment driverless cars moved from lab experiments to real-world service. Waymo now provides 450,000 paid rides weekly across five U.S. cities. Baidu's Apollo Go matches that in China, operating across 22 cities from Wuhan to Dubai. Tesla, Zoox, and others are racing to catch up.
Updated Jan 8
Service resumed Dec 21; acknowledged operational failures; rolled out software updates Dec 24 to handle regional power failures
San Francisco is the kind of city that feels unstoppable—until the lights go out. On Saturday, a substation fire near 8th and Mission helped trigger a blackout that spread across neighborhoods, turned intersections into guesswork, and pushed daily life into slow-motion. Full restoration took until Tuesday morning—more than two days—sparking political backlash and raising basic questions about whether a modern city can tolerate single-point failures in critical infrastructure.
Updated Dec 25, 2025
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