Hyundai Motor is reportedly seeking to supply Waymo with 50,000 IONIQ 5 autonomous vehicles by 2028 in what would amount to a roughly USD 2.5 billion deal. The potential order, first reported overseas, would see Hyundai’s Georgia-based Metaplant America (HMGMA) produce IONIQ 5 EVs at volume specifically for Waymo. Th

On February 6, Waymo introduced its Waymo World Model, a frontier generative model that sets a new bar for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation. The Waymo World Model is built upon Genie 3, Google DeepMind's most advanced general-purpose world model that generates photorealistic and interactive

On February 2, Waymo announced it raised a USD 16 billion investment round valuing the company at USD 126 billion post-money, underscoring its lead in autonomous mobility in North America.
With more than 400,000 rides provided every week across six major U.S. metropolitan areas, Waymo more than tripled its annual vol

On December 20, Waymo’s driverless ride service vehicles froze mid-ride and disrupted traffic across San Francisco as a city-wide power outage caused traffic lights to go dark at major intersections.
Waymo was left having to attend to autonomous taxis which were stopped with their hazard lights flashing. The power f

On November 18, Waymo, a part of Alphabet Inc., said it began autonomous driving operations in Miami, Florida, and over the coming weeks will do so also in Florida in Orlando, as well as in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas in 2026.
Waymo says it has built a generalizable Driver, powered by Waymo’s demonstrably

On November 12, Waymo announced that it is now welcoming riders to use Waymo on freeways across the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles , California and Phoenix, Arizona areas, making it the first robotaxi service provides to do so in the U.S. 
The company plans to expand the freeway service over time to include t

On November 6, Hyundai Motor Company President and CEO José Muñoz shared the company’s strategic direction for 2026 in a global town hall-style meeting live streamed from Hyundai’s Gangnam office in Seoul.
Munoz reaffirmed Hyundai Motor aims to achieve 5.55 million global vehicle sales by 2030, with electrified vehic

On November 4, Gapwaves announced that it will receive funding from Vinnova to advance its Multi-Layer Waveguide (MLW) technology for the next-generation imaging radar for fully autonomous vehicles (AV). The project will be carried out in partnership with Waymo, a part of Alphabet. The grant totals SEK 0.6 million, a

On November 3,  Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous vehicle division, Waymo said that its self-driving fleet is headed to Detroit, San Diego and Las Vegas. Detroit is significant because it is Waymo's first northern market, and the service is also notable because it uses Zeekr minivans, the first Chinese electric auto brand o

On October 22, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous vehicle division, Waymo, began manual testing of its self-driving vehicles with human drivers at Newark Liberty International Airport. Conducted in collaboration with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the initiative aims to prepare Waymo’s technology for eventual

On October 17, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it opened a preliminary probe into about 2,000 Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports that the company’s robotaxis failed to follow traffic safety laws around stopped school buses.
NHTSA said the Office of Defects Investigation (OD

On October 15, Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, announced that it is launching a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in London, UK, from 2026. In the coming months, it will lay the groundwork for its service in collaboration with its fleet operations partner, Moove. It will continue to engage with local and nationa

On September 18, Waymo and Via announced a strategic partnership to allow government agencies leveraging Via’s software to introduce Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hailing service directly into their public transit networks. 
Launching this fall, Chandler, Arizona will be the first city to benefit from this framework,

On August 12, 2025, WeRide (Nasdaq: WRD) announced that its Founder and CEO, Dr. Tony Han, has joined Singapore’s 17-member Steering Committee on Autonomous Vehicles (AV), chaired by the Acting Transport Minister. 
The committee brings together representatives from government, academia, industry, and labor to shape p

On July 28, Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc. announced it is expanding to Dallas, Texas in 2026. Waymo will offer its ride-hailing service to the public through the Waymo app, with its fleet managed through a new strategic, multi-year partnership with Avis Budget Group, a leading global mobility solutions provid

On July 17, Waymo said that it will now offer autonomous rides through its partnership with Uber Technologies across 90 square miles of Austin, Texas. The service, which launched in Austin about four months ago, previously covered about 37 square miles.
As of late March, Waymo robotaxis accounted for 20% of Uber ride

On June 24, Waymo announced its robotaxi service launch to the public in Atlanta, achieved through an exclusive partnership with Uber. The exclusive nature of the deal highlights a division of responsibilities. Uber will manage fleet maintenance and cleaning, while Waymo focuses on its core technology and roadside as

On June 9, Waymo confirmed that it has cut off taxi service to parts of Los Angeles after five of its self-driving vehicles were torched during weekend protests over immigration raids by federal ICE agents.
After removing the damaged vehicles from downtown Los Angeles, it said it is not servicing that specific area “

On May 14, Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc. said it is recalling 1,212 self-driving vehicles operating on the company’s older fifth-generation automated driving system (ADS) software for updates and to address the risk of collisions with chains, gates and other roadway barriers after the U.S. National Highway Tr