283.9
▲ 2.3× since Dec 2024
thousand weekly paid Waymo trips in California, December 2025
20232025

What the chart shows

Paid driverless trips in California, as reported to the California Public Utilities Commission, grew from about 200 a week in March 2023 to about 283,900 a week in December 2025. That is 2.3 times the 122,200 of December 2024.

Growth sped up after February 2025, with a dip to about 136,100 in June 2025 before recovering. The peak in the data is about 297,100 in November 2025. The AI Index puts Waymo’s fleet at roughly 2,500 robotaxis across US cities by late 2025.

Key numbers

MeasureValue
March 20230.22 thousand
December 2024122.2 thousand
May 2025197.7 thousand
June 2025136.1 thousand
November 2025 (peak)297.1 thousand
December 2025283.9 thousand

How to read it

  • Values are weekly paid trips for each month, in thousands, from the CPUC’s quarterly reports. June and July 2023 are missing from the data, so the line joins May and August 2023.
  • The AI Index notes that the CPUC deployment data also covered Cruise until it was discontinued in December 2024; the report presents the series as Waymo trips.
  • Tesla has not been approved by the CPUC to offer driverless passenger service, per the report.
Source: California Public Utilities Commission, 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 2.7.5: Waymo autonomous vehicle trips in California, 2023–25. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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