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Friday, April 25, 2025

Waymo Reports Another Leap in Riders

Alphabet reported that Waymo's self-driving vehicles are now serving over a quarter of a million paid passenger trips each week, up fivefold from a year earlier. In the first quarter of 2025, Waymo opened up a paid service in Silicon Valley, expanded in Austin with Uber and is preparing for a public launch in Atlanta in the summer of 2025. 

"We are also building up a network of partners, for example, for maintaining fleets of vehicles and doing all the operations related to that with the recently announced partnership with Moove in Phoenix and Miami," Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said. "There are future optionality around personal ownership as well."

Alphabet also reported that TV is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the US. "According to Nielsen, YouTube has been number one in streaming watch time in the US for the last two years," Alphabet said. "YouTube Music and Premium reached over 125 million subscribers, including trials, globally." Source: Alphabet transcript

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