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Waymo paid rides per week

Paid robotaxi rides Waymo provides per week across its US cities, as stated by the company and relayed by the press.

Reason through this

The reading

Half a million a week, doubling roughly yearly, ten cities. A decade-long diffusion curve on schedule.

Every readingeach dot links to its record
rides per week
waymo · 500,000 rides per week · 2026-03-27 · reported
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1 reading drawn from techcrunch.waymo.weekly_paid_rides.pt, one of 2 series listed under How it is measured; 2 observations in the evidence.

Source: TechCrunch. TechCrunch.

The numbers
as ofreadingvaluerecord
2026-03-27waymo500,000 rides per weekreported

Why it matters

The paper's clearest example of a regulated, physical-world deployment that diffuses city by city. The number is the speed limit made visible.

What cuts against it

Company-stated figures relayed by the press (tier 5); city launches are lumpy; a single safety event can pause the curve.

How it is measured
  • series techcrunch.waymo.weekly_paid_rides.pt
  • series electrek.waymo.weekly_paid_rides.pt
  • source Electrek · default tier 5 · Electrek; short quotation
  • source TechCrunch · default tier 7 · TechCrunch; short quotation
  • proxy deployment, product · cadence quarterly · valve adoption to adaptation

Normal = under a million paid rides a week, well under one percent of US ride-hail trips and scaling one city at a time; fast = five million or more, a national-scale substitution. Between is `emerging`.

Applied to techcrunch.waymo.weekly_paid_rides.pt.

Latest readings
Why this status, and its history

Evaluator: 5e+05 (TechCrunch, 2026-03-27) is inside the consistent band (hi=1e+06). Auto-reason; band rationale: Normal = under a million paid rides a week, well under one percent of US ride-hail trips and scaling one city at a time; fast = five million or more, a national-scale substitution. Between is `emerging`.

  1. 2026-09-10unmeasured to consistent with normalconf — → 65 · the evaluator (automatic)

    Evaluator: 5e+05 (TechCrunch, 2026-03-27) is inside the consistent band (hi=1e+06). Auto-reason; band rationale: Normal = under a million paid rides a week, well under one percent of US ride-hail trips and scaling one city at a time; fast = five million or more, a national-scale substitution. Between is `emerging`.

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Why this confidence

Rests on 2 observations from Electrek, TechCrunch; best evidence tier 5, grade C; stale since 2026-03-27.

Confidence is independent of status: 90–95 multiple strong independent sources; 70–89 good evidence, some ambiguity; 50–69 mixed or hard to operationalise; 0–49 limited or vague evidence.

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