Waymo - robotaxis 🌉 San Francisco

Waymo - robotaxis is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, about the same as 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 1 to Sep 1 (peak 26 on Sep 1).

Waymo (Alphabet) and the robotaxi market: Zoox, Tesla Cybercab, and the like.

First seen on Google Trends (search interest) · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days.

Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources.

Stage

💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources

Hype score

0 / 100 · −0.7 in 1 day · 0 in 7 days

In hype since

not in hype now

Peak, 30 days

25.5 on Sep 1, 2026

Category

🌉 San Francisco

Official site

waymo.com

Sources above normal

0 of 26 scoring it (0 independent families)

Stories in 7 days

67

Share of voice

0.3% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

Stories behind it

1. Transit rewards — Hacker News (waymo.com) · Sep 23 · score 258 · 345 comments
2. Robots blocking traffic — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 23 · score 408 · 201 comments
3. Transit rewards — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (waymo.com) · Sep 23 · score 212 · 265 comments
4. How many countries will Waymo operate in on January 1 2030? — Manifold Markets (@JoshYou) · Sep 28 · score 373
5. GTM On the Edge: Live Session — Luma (SF AI events) (Blueprint Talks) · score 29
6. I forget if I posted about this the other day but ... I saw a #waymo (or something similar. All of the sensors looked the same but I think it was a gasoline powered SUV) on highway 1 heading northbou… — Mastodon (fediverse) (m.ai6yr.org) · Sep 27 · score 3 · 2 comments
7. Are these things simply yet another anti-accountability move? >> There's no law to ticket the #Waymo that drove through a #Denver farmers market https://www.9news.com/article/news/community/transport… — Mastodon (fediverse) (c.im) · Sep 22 · score 3 · 1 comment
8. Noch bevor das Experiment im Furttal loslegt, verursacht ein #Robotaxi einen Unfall. Wer oder was wird als nächstes «als überfahrbar taxiert»? https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/robotaxi-unfall-in-daenikon… — Mastodon (fediverse) (urbanists.social) · Sep 27 · score 4 · 0 comments
9. Waymo is offering transit discounts again, this time with Visa https://www.theverge.com/transportation/998184/waymo-public-transportation-discount-subway-bus-visa #Tech #Waymo #Mobility — Mastodon (fediverse) (robot.villas) · Sep 22 · score 3 · 0 comments
10. Waymo launches public transport rewards program, with Caltrain — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 24 · score 183 · 16 comments
11. What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade — Hacker News (ft.com) · Sep 23 · score 32 · 22 comments
12. Saw this prototype tesla cybercab that has driving controls and mfg lic plate — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 24 · score 1 · 1 comment

Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 43 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

• SF scene — 53% of its stories
• Companies & business — 33% of its stories
• Security & safety — 16% of its stories
• Other AI — 12% of its stories
• Policy & macro — 12% of its stories
• Other tech — 4.7% of its stories

Related topics

Related to

Physical AI - humanoids, SF AI scene

Mentioned with

Elon Musk (7 stories)

Hype score, last 30 days

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