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What the automated decision is: The Waymo Driver steers, brakes, yields and chooses routes with no human driver in paid robotaxis on city streets and freeways, so its decisions can injure passengers, pedestrians, cyclists, school children and other motorists.

WF-P-000221

Made by
Waymo LLC
From our research
2 findings, each checked against its source
  • Waymo LLC reported 1 crash involving its Level 2 driver-assistance system to NHTSA under Standing General Order 2021-01 for a crash in March 2026; 0 alleged an injury. These are the company's own reports that a crash happened while the system was in use, not findings that it caused them.
  • Waymo LLC reported 2,327 crashes involving its automated driving system to NHTSA under Standing General Order 2021-01 for crashes from July 2021 to August 2026; 204 alleged an injury, 3 a fatality. These are the company's own reports that a crash happened while the system was in use, not findings that it caused them.
Products
Waymo Driver · Waymo One
In court
0 cases name it as a party
Where we have looked

Searched through CourtListener / RECAP, last read 2026-10-08:

  • US federal district, appellate and bankruptcy dockets — 235 courts105 district, 14 appellate, 95 bankruptcy and 21 special federal courts
  • published opinions, including state supreme and appellate courts — 384 courts, including 53 state supreme courts53 state supreme, 62 state appellate, 6 state trial and 28 state special courts, plus the federal courts above

County and municipal courts are not searched, and neither is anything outside the United States. A count of nought means we found nothing where we looked, not that nothing exists.

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companies observed
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with dated history
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earliest sighting
39
incidents on the record
1
with legal action

Incidents on the record naming Waymo

Public reports of harm that name Waymo, written from the article each cites. A report is an account of what happened, not a finding of fault.

Relationship map

Everything this page holds on Waymo, connected. Each point opens the record, the court docket or the source behind it.

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What we hold, by kind

Incidents39

Bias allegations, by product—

None found yet.

Allegations from incidents and court cases. An allegation is not a finding.

False positives and false negatives—

None found yet.

Reports describing a wrong flag or rejection (false positive) or a missed one (false negative), picked out by their wording; not yet classified by a person.

Regulatory actions9

Settlements—

None found yet in its filings or the cases we hold.

Audits—

No published audit found yet.

Bias audits the vendor says were done, and audit-based certifications.

Academic studies—

Not collected yet: studies of this platform are a source we are adding.

Verified deployments

0 companies we can evidence on Waymo, from addresses they run on its domain and from Waymo’s own customer stories. Which ones, and since when, is a Professional feature.

ProfessionalEvery company we can evidence on this platform, how we know, and since when.

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