Primer
Robotaxi
A driverless taxi service with no human safety driver aboard, dispatched through an app.
- Sensors and software perceive traffic, predict what others will do and plan the car's path many times per second.
- Services run inside mapped, approved zones, with remote staff who help when a car gets stuck.
- Waymo, the leader, reported over 250,000 paid rides a week across several US cities in 2025.
- The hard parts: rare 'edge cases', proving safety statistically over hundreds of millions of miles, and cutting vehicle and support costs.