Waymo

Waymo is the autonomous driving company that began as the Google self-driving car project. It operates what it calls the world’s first autonomous ride-hailing service, in which riders summon fully driverless vehicles through an app. The company bills the Waymo Driver as a system that never gets tired, angry or distracted, and it publishes safety data claiming large reductions in serious-injury crashes compared with human drivers in the cities where it operates.

The service runs around the clock in markets such as Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Austin and Atlanta, and some cities are served through a partnership with Uber. Boston appears on the company’s list of upcoming cities. Waymo reports more than 20 million rides served and frames its work around Vision Zero, the effort to eliminate traffic deaths, backed by a published Safety Framework and safety dashboard.

What to Know

• Swiss Re found Waymo had 92 percent fewer bodily injury claims over 25 million miles than human drivers.
• The company reports 93 percent fewer pedestrian injury crashes and 86 percent fewer cyclist injury crashes.
• Riders can sign up for updates on when service reaches Boston.
• Waymo is part of Alphabet, the parent company of Google.