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By February 2025, the service has expanded to nearly 80 square miles, and Waymo began testing its driverless operations on the freeways. Initially, freeway rides will be available only to Waymo employees, with plans to gradually expand access to the public, just as they did with non-freeway routes.

Waymo is logging more than 200,000 paid robotaxi rides every week, according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who shared the stat about the tech giant's

Ross Gerber praised Waymo autonomous vehicles while criticizing Tesla's Full Self-Driving technology in a recent social media post.

In the race to lead the autonomous vehicle space—and maybe even the future of transportation—Google's Waymo has about a 100-mile head start. The self-driving taxi division just hit a new milestone: over 200,000 paid rides per week through its Waymo One service.