Waymo

Organization

#14 trending in Business & Startups this week · most on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Waymo LLC is an American autonomous-driving technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California, and a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Originally developed as Google’s self-driving car project, Waymo develops autonomous driving systems and operates commercial robotaxi services in multiple U.S. metropolitan areas.

Rank this week

#14new
#103 over 30 days

Share of the conversation

1.4‰
4.4× usual level

7.3‰ of what listeners heard

Reach this week

4 shows
5 episodes · ~4.0M plays

Tone this week

Neutral
  • Neutral 2
  • Positive 1

Share of the conversation

Mentions of Waymo per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, business & startups.

0.0‰2‰4‰6‰8‰usual level · 0.32‰Jul 11Aug 2Aug 25Sep 16Oct 8
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DayShare (7-day)Mentions
Jul 272.79‰1
Jul 316.97‰1
Aug 100.46‰1
Aug 170.21‰1
Aug 270.28‰1
Aug 290.51‰1
Aug 310.73‰1
Sep 30.72‰1
Sep 41.00‰1
Sep 51.04‰1
Sep 140.42‰2
Sep 171.14‰4
Sep 181.51‰2
Sep 280.51‰3
Oct 20.90‰2
Oct 50.55‰1
Oct 81.39‰4

Why is it trending?· Last 7 days

Waymo appears in debates over AI’s future and physical-world risks

On The Diary Of A CEO, Jeffrey LeDish warned that future AI incidents could resemble “all of the Waymo's crashing,” in a discussion about escalating risks and public desensitization.[1]

On Moonshots, Dave Blundin called Waymo one of X’s biggest achievements and described it as a Google asset that adds substantial value to the company’s balance sheet.[2][3]

Morning Brew Daily used the rollout of Waymo rides in Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities as an example of technology developing quietly before becoming widely available.[4]

On This Week in Startups, Chris Farmer argued that people may react more viscerally to physical AI, saying a robot or Waymo can be physically confronted in a way software cannot.[5]

Sources · 5 moments

  1. 1.
    The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · AI Safety Whistleblower: 700 AI Agents Attacked A Company To Cover Their Tracks! | Jeffrey Ladish
    Jeffrey LeDish · Oct 8 · Listen at 1:40:24 ↗
    “And I think... But I want to be realistic. No, I want to be realistic too. But one of the things that might happen between now and then is we might see a lot more incidents that are more like all of the Waymo's crashing.”
  2. 2.
    Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
    Dave Blundin · Oct 5 · Listen at 6:45 ↗
    “I think, I think, you know, if you asked me 3 years ago, you know, what are the big things that came out of out of X. Waymo is at the top of the list.”
  3. 3.
    Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298
    Dave Blundin · Oct 2 · Listen at 58:05 ↗
    “will get disrupted in 2 years, right? But you look at— I'll use the analogy of Google, okay? So you have Google with their ad business, uh, which people said would be disrupted by Facebook, and what Google did was spun off Waymo. They spun”
  4. 4.
    Morning Brew Daily · Walmart Rolls Out Digital Price Tags & Does AI Feel Pain?
    Neal Freyman · Oct 2 · Listen at 12:58 ↗
    “I mean, this— they're calling it basically similar to the autonomous taxi or self-driving car rollout where we saw this bubbling beneath the surface for 15, 20, 25 years. We were promised self-driving cars they were working on in the backgr”
  5. 5.
    This Week in Startups · What VCs Really Think About Personal AI Agents | E2347
    Chris Farmer · Oct 8 · Listen at 1:13:26 ↗
    “you see it in data center build outs but i think you're going to see it in spades and in And physical AI, you know, as you start to have humanoid robots, people are going to feel it's hard to choke check GPT, but you can definitely throw a”

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