Waymo Driver
Vertical application
Overview
The Waymo Driver is Waymo's autonomous driving technology designed with safety at its core. It uses detailed maps, real-time sensor data, artificial intelligence, lidar, cameras, radar, onboard computing, and backup systems to perceive its surroundings, predict road-user behavior, plan safe actions, and transport passengers from pickup to destination. Waymo has driven over 100 million fully autonomous miles and over 20 billion miles in simulation.
- Pricing model
- Usage-based
- Deployment
- On-device / edge, SaaS (vendor-hosted)
- Regions served
- United States
- Categories
- Process automation, Vertical application, Predictive / classical ML, Computer vision, Usage-based, SaaS (vendor-hosted), Automotive, On-device / edge, Risk assessment, Agentic / autonomous
- Last updated
- 4 October 2026
- Published
- 4 October 2026
Use cases
Deployment options
Data sources & provenance
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- Data quality
- Data quality: Editorially Reviewed
- Primary source
- waymo.com
- Sources cited
- 1
- Last reviewed
- 28 September 2026
- Last updated
- 4 October 2026
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