Waymo at Nearly 1 Million Paid Trips a Month in California
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Waymo puts out big stats and milestones from time to time on social media and on its blog, but not actually that often. However, data on the company is available through the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Charlie Bilello went and collected some of that data recently and shared how stunning the company’s growth has been in California.
He pointed out that Waymo was doing 876,000 paid driverless trips a month in California as of May 2025. Perhaps the company has even reached 1 million trips a month now. One would hope Waymo would share that milestone with the world when it reaches it, but we haven’t seen such an announcement yet. In the meantime, based on this publicly available data, Charlie had a couple of other numbers to highlight:
- That May monthly total was a 6× increase over May 2024.
- That May monthly total was a 69× increase over August 2023!
Clearly, Waymo has been growing fast in the past couple of years. And that’s just the California market. The company is certainly at a “scaling up” phase of its development. It’ll be exciting to see how much that increases in the next two years.
Recent posts Waymo has made on social media include good news about continued testing in New York and a little marketing campaign in coordination with the Golden State Warriors.
And there’s also its new partnership with DoorDash and expansion into London.
What’s next?
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