Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov stated that the company plans to eventually put its self-driving tech in personal vehicles, going beyond its current offering of robotaxis.
Dolgov said in an interview with Stripe cofounder John Collison that there will be a “path of convergence” for Waymo’s product lines in which the autonomous technology behind the company’s robotaxi will be put inside consumer vehicles.
“There’s ride-hailing, and you can take a ride through the Waymo app today,” he said. “Eventually, that’ll be on your personal car. So that I see.”
Dolgov added that a personal car equipped with Waymo’s AI driver would be more ideal in places where it would not be commercially viable to run a ride-hailing service in less dense regions.
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“The technology is solved. But then, if you’re in the middle of nowhere and there’s just not enough density of the trips. Does it make sense for the ride-hailing service that Waymo is running to have cars on standby? Probably not,” he added.
Waymo had previously said that it’s exploring other commercial opportunities beyond ride-hailing, including licensing its technology to other automakers. Last year, the company announced a “strategic partnership” with Toyota Motor Corporation to explore putting Waymo’s autonomous driving technology in personally-owned vehicles, or POVs.
“Through this new collaboration, the companies aim to further accelerate the development and adoption of driver assistance and automated driving technologies for POVs, with a continued focus on safety and peace of mind,” the companies said at the time.
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Waymo currently provides paid rides in 10 U.S. metro areas and lists other cities, both in the U.S. and globally, as targets for future deployment. The Alphabet-backed company said on Thursday that it’s now providing 500,000 paid rides a week.
Earlier this year, Waymo raised a $16 billion investment round valuing the company at $126 billion post-money. The new valuation was more than double of what the company notched after its last funding round in October 2024. The round was led by Alphabet alongside previous backers, including Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price.
In January, federal safety regulators opened an inquiry into a Waymo self-driving vehicle after the autonomous taxi struck a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica. Waymo said it will cooperate fully with investigators and reiterated its commitment to improving automated driving technology as regulators and lawmakers continue to debate how best to manage autonomous vehicles on public streets.