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Waymo Timeline Also Ranks All Robotaxi Players, With Tesla In Last

How do all the robotaxi contenders compare with Waymo the leader? See it all in one graphic

A demo ride or video means nothing, but being willing to remove the safety driver says a lot—it says their internal statistics showed that was a reasonable move, even though any serious incident, with no human there to fix it, can destroy or seriously delay their entire project, as we saw with Cruise and Uber. Once you take out that driver, letting employees, then beta testers and finally the general public are major milestones, as well as expanding territory and handling more difficult road situations. This chart only shows major robotaxi ventures with deployment, so you won’t see Wayve, Waabi, Aurora or Nuro (which just recently switched from being a pure delivery company) ranked.

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