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Weekly driverless Waymo trips: May 2023: 10,000 May 2024: 50,000 August 2024: 100,000 October 2024: 150,000 February: 2025: 200,000 Pretty good but growth rate seems to be slowing a bit.

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Sundar Pichai

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Exciting new @Waymo milestone: Waymo One is now serving 200k+ paid trips each week across LA, Phoenix and SF - that’s 20x growth in less than two years! Up next: Austin, Atlanta and Miami.

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They need to expand more Their expansions have been limited and slow so that’s why ride numbers are slow

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10x in 15 months was pretty fast. If they can keep that up they will be uber sized by the end of the decade.

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