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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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: 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: [email protected]