Waymo now at 500K rides each week; tenfold growth since 2024

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As of March 2026, Waymo is providing over 500,000 fully autonomous, paid electric vehicle trips per week across 10 U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and several in Texas. This represents a significant increase from 450,000 weekly rides in December 2025 and a 10-fold growth in less than two years.

Waymo is now providing 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across 10 U.S. cities, the company shared in a post on X this week. The eye-popping figure is reflective of the Alphabet-owned company’s accelerated commercial expansion. But it’s Waymo’s rate of growth in ridership and markets that offers a more compelling story. 

In less than two years, the company’s average weekly paid robotaxi trips have grown tenfold, from 50,000 per week in May 2024 to 500,000 per week today. Over that same two-year timespan, Waymo has expanded within its initial markets of Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles — and beyond them to Austin, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando. Those seven cities in the Sun Belt were all added in just the past year.