Waymo’s endpoint isn’t just robotaxis.
Eventually, the company wants to put its self-driving tech in personal cars, according to Waymo’s co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov.
The Waymo chief said in an interview with Stripe cofounder John Collison, published last week, that there will be a “path of convergence” for Waymo’s product lines in which the autonomous technology behind the company’s robotaxi will be put inside consumer vehicles.
“There’s ride-hailing, and you can take a ride through the Waymo app today,” he said. “Eventually, that’ll be on your personal car. So that I see.”
The co-CEO later added in the interview that a personal car equipped with Waymo’s AI driver would be more ideal in places where it would not be commercially viable to run a ride-hailing service in less dense regions.
“The technology is solved. But then, if you’re in the middle of nowhere and there’s just not enough density of the trips. Does it make sense for the ride-hailing service that Waymo is running to have cars on standby? Probably not,” Dolgov said.
Waymo has previously said that it’s exploring other commercial opportunities beyond ride-hailing, including licensing its technology to other automakers.
In April 2025, the Alphabet-backed company announced a “strategic partnership” with Toyota Motor Corporation to explore putting Waymo’s autonomous driving technology in personally-owned vehicles, or POVs.
“Through this new collaboration, the companies aim to further accelerate the development and adoption of driver assistance and automated driving technologies for POVs, with a continued focus on safety and peace of mind,” the companies said at the time.
Waymo currently provides paid rides in 10 US metro areas and lists other US cities and cities abroad as targets for future deployments.
The company announced Thursday that it’s now providing 500,000 paid rides a week.
A spokesperson for Waymo did not respond to a request for comment.
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