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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | DeKyre, thank you so much for being with us at Google I.O. |
0:04.0 | A huge milestone for Waymo to announce a 10 million totally autonomously driven miles. |
0:12.0 | Just put the scale of that milestone into perspective for our viewers. |
0:16.0 | So it's 10 million trips. I don't know. |
0:19.0 | Tell me trips, sorry. |
0:20.0 | Yes. 10 million trips, which basically represents scale across Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, as well as Phoenix. |
0:29.2 | And so we'd already announced that we were doing over 250,000 trips per week. |
0:34.3 | And at the end of last year, we had hit 5 million trips and now only five months later |
0:40.3 | we're announcing 10 million trips like exponential growth pretty much and these are paid trips these are |
0:45.5 | all paid trips and they represent people who are really integrating the waymo driver into their |
0:50.5 | everyday lives is there something about the last million that told you something about how Waymo is going to be able to scale in the future? |
0:58.0 | I think every trip, especially at scale, is accelerating the rate at which the driver is learning, |
1:05.0 | but it's also accelerating the pace at which we are engaging with communities. |
1:09.0 | Like figuring out the actual pinpoints and making |
1:11.9 | sure that we're meeting people where they have needs is one of our sort of biggest priorities |
1:16.9 | because we don't want this. It's exciting that it's a tourist attraction, but we don't want it to |
1:21.8 | only be a tourist attraction. We really want people to integrate this into their everyday lives. |
1:26.4 | 10 million after 5 million last year tells us that that's happening. |
1:31.2 | How fast do you think you get to the next 10 million? |
1:34.2 | Very fast. |
1:34.9 | Very quickly, the end of this year? |
1:36.5 | Very quickly. |
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