Robotaxis at scale
Driverless vehicles carrying paying passengers in many cities.
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- Physical world
- Wave
- 5 of 12 (build order, not a date)
- Needs
- 8 boxes all the way back through hard links
- Unlocks
- 0 boxes downstream through hard links
- Leverage
- None: already built
- Cluster
- Robots and the physical economy
- When
- Here since 2025
Evidence as of October 2026
Waymo carries 500,000 paid rides a week across 10 US markets, double its volume less than a year earlier.
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Robotaxi paid rides per week (Waymo: 500,000 in 2026) and cities served.
Timeline note
Waymo passed 250,000 paid rides a week in April 2025 and 500,000 in 2026.
Detail boxes 1
Federal robotaxi exemption cap
US vehicle safety standards assume a human driver, so purpose-built robotaxis without manual controls need exemptions capped by statute.
NHTSA granted Zoox the first commercial robotaxi exemption on 30 Jul 2026 at 2,500 vehicles a year, 'the maximum under current law'; standards for vehicles without manual controls were only proposed in Mar 2026.
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