--- title: "Waymo - robotaxis — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/waymo as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Waymo - robotaxis (🌉 San Francisco) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Waymo - robotaxis 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](https://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. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Tech press (RSS) | items | 1 | 0.4 | 1.4× | no | 0% | | Reddit | posts | 1 | 0.5 | 1.3× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 1 (Sep 26) | 1 | 1× | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Transit rewards](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811065) — Hacker News (waymo.com) · Sep 23 · score 258 · 345 comments 2. [Robots blocking traffic](https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1wo4now/) — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 23 · score 408 · 201 comments 3. [Transit rewards](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811065) — 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?](https://manifold.markets/JoshYou/how-many-countries-will-waymo-opera) — Manifold Markets (@JoshYou) · Sep 28 · score 373 5. [GTM On the Edge: Live Session](https://luma.com/6df63opp) — 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…](https://m.ai6yr.org/@douglasvb/117340553679073153) — 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…](https://c.im/@shonin/117312690312518401) — 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…](https://urbanists.social/@dom/117342308125585341) — 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](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/998184/waymo-public-transportation-discount-subway-bus-visa) — Mastodon (fediverse) (robot.villas) · Sep 22 · score 3 · 0 comments 10. [Waymo launches public transport rewards program, with Caltrain](https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1wph1tr/) — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 24 · score 183 · 16 comments 11. [What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819658) — Hacker News (ft.com) · Sep 23 · score 32 · 22 comments 12. [Saw this prototype tesla cybercab that has driving controls and mfg lic plate](https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1wozdir/) — 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](https://abovethefog.app/themes/sf_scene.md) — 53% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 33% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 16% of its stories - Other AI — 12% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 12% of its stories - Other tech — 4.7% of its stories ## Related topics - **Related to:** [Physical AI - humanoids](https://abovethefog.app/topics/physical_ai.md), [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md) - **Mentioned with:** [Elon Musk](https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk.md) (7 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 12.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 4.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 20.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 2.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 0.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 4.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 13.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 13.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 11 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 2.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 5.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 13.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 14.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 14.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 19.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 4, 2026 | 20.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 3, 2026 | 19.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 2, 2026 | 9.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 25.5 | 🚀 Rising | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Waymo - robotaxis in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=waymo) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/waymo) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)