Self-driving car companies currently operating in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and PhoenixWaymo, and will next enter Miami, USA, and is expected to officially start development in early 2025, but the actual provision of reservation vehicle ride services will have to wait until 2026.
In addition, Waymo also announced a partnership with startup MooveCooperationIt is expected that Moove will provide vehicles for the ride-sharing service, and Moove will manage vehicle operations, related facilities and charging equipment in Phoenix, and will later use Moove vehicles for the Miami operation service.
Waymo is currently operating in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, allowing users to book self-driving car rides through its autonomous driving service. It also cooperates with Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport through the Waymo One service platform to provide airport shuttle services. It also plans to provide fully automated highway transportation shuttle services in Phoenix and San Francisco.
Waymo's total financing at this stage has exceeded US$111 billion. In addition to the US$56 billion in financing this time, it obtained US$2020 billion in two financing rounds in 2021 and 55 respectively. Among them, Alphabet, to which Waymo originally belonged, invested more than US$50 billion and it is a multi-year investment strategy project of Alphabet.
