From 14 cities to 15,000: What it will take to scale robotaxis?

In the future, robotaxis will have cleaning and reset stations available throughout their operational territory. | Credit: Aseon Labs Robotaxis are proven. Waymo has logged more than 220 million autonomous miles and, by its own count, has more than 94% fewer serious injury crashes than human drivers. It gives around half a million paid rides a week and is expanding to more cities. So the question has moved from “Does this work?” to “How does this get everywhere?” Waymo is in 14 cities. Uber is in over 15,000. Uber did 3.9 billion trips last quarter. It processes Waymo’s entire weekly ride volume every 17 minutes. Driving software and vehicle supply have billions pointed at them. Almost nobody is funding the…


Source: The Robot Report