Waymo

aid: waymo
name: Waymo
description: Waymo is the autonomous driving subsidiary of Alphabet, originally spun out of the Google Self-Driving Car Project.
  The company develops the Waymo Driver, a full Level 4 autonomous driving stack combining custom lidar, radar, and camera
  sensors with proprietary perception, prediction, and planning models. Waymo One operates a commercial robotaxi service in
  Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, and other expanding US markets, with announced launches in Tokyo and London.
  The company has logged tens of millions of rider-only miles and reports significantly fewer serious-injury crashes than
  human-driven benchmarks. Waymo does not publish a traditional public developer API. Its primary developer-facing artifacts
  are the Waymo Open Dataset, the Waymo Open Motion Dataset, the Waymax JAX-based driving simulator, and a robust research
  publication catalogue spanning perception, behaviour prediction, planning, simulation, and end-to-end driving. Consumer
  access is through the Waymo One mobile app.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
position: Consumer
tags:
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Self-Driving
- Robotaxi
- Ride-Hailing
- Alphabet
- Lidar
- Computer Vision
- Open Dataset
- Simulation
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/waymo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: waymo:open-dataset
  name: Waymo Open Dataset
  description: A large-scale, high-quality multimodal sensor dataset (lidar, camera) for autonomous driving research, released
    under a non-commercial research license. Includes labelled 3D and 2D object data, segmentation, and the Waymo Open Motion
    Dataset for interactive motion forecasting. Distributed as TFRecord files with a Python devkit on GitHub. Powers an annual
    research challenge series at CVPR.
  humanURL: https://waymo.com/open
  baseURL: https://github.com/waymo-research/waymo-open-dataset
  tags:
  - Open Dataset
  - Lidar
  - Camera
  - Motion Forecasting
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://waymo.com/open/data/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/waymo-research/waymo-open-dataset
  - type: Challenges
    url: https://waymo.com/open/challenges/
- aid: waymo:waymax
  name: Waymax Driving Simulator
  description: Waymax is a JAX-based, lightweight, multi-agent simulator for autonomous driving research, designed for accelerated
    training and evaluation of driving policies. Open-sourced by Waymo Research and used to benchmark behaviour-prediction
    and planning models against logged Waymo Open Motion Dataset scenarios.
  humanURL: https://github.com/waymo-research/waymax
  baseURL: https://github.com/waymo-research/waymax
  tags:
  - Simulator
  - JAX
  - Reinforcement Learning
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/waymo-research/waymax
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/waymo-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://waymo.com
- type: AboutUs
  url: https://waymo.com/company/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://waymo.com/press/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.waymo.com
- type: Safety
  url: https://waymo.com/safety/
- type: Research
  url: https://waymo.com/research/
- type: OpenDataset
  url: https://waymo.com/open
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/waymo-research
- type: SupportCenter
  url: https://support.google.com/waymo
- type: Careers
  url: https://careers.withwaymo.com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/waymo
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/Waymo
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@Waymo
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com