Deployment
Waymo Driver 6th-gen at Houston
The sixth-generation Waymo Driver is Waymo's autonomous driving stack for fully autonomous robotaxi service. The platform integrates 13 cameras, 4 lidars, 6 radars, and external audio receivers, with overlapping 360° coverage and a detection range up to roughly 500 meters in nominal conditions. Compared to the fifth-generation system on the Jaguar I-PACE, the sixth-gen system uses 42% fewer total sensors. Waymo says the per-unit hardware cost is targeted under $20,000 — a more than 50% reduction from the 5th-gen system. Currently runs on the Zeekr RT (sold as the “Ojai” robotaxi, purpose-built without a steering wheel or pedals) and the Hyundai IONIQ 5; began fully autonomous commercial operations in February 2026.
Waymo Driver 6th-gen by Waymo · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
Operator: Waymo (own service, Waymo One app). Waymo announced Houston service in November 2025 (employee-only operations beginning that fall) and launched public/rolling-access service in February 2026, scaling gradually (high-density zones around the Toyota Center and West University).
Key facts
- Launched
- Public Feb 2026 (rolling access)
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-05-26
- Model
- Waymo Driver 6th-gen
- Company
- Waymo
- Location
- Houston
- Status
- active
- First seen
- 2026-02-24
- ID
6b1556a8-1072-44f2-aae1-1547f16cb088
Verifications (0)
No verifications recorded yet.
Sources (2)
- Houston employee-only fall 2025, public early 2026 · https://www.aol.com/news/google-owned-waymo-robotaxis-soon-151502821.html · 2025-11-08
- Houston public launch Feb 2026 · https://www.electrive.com/2026/02/25/waymo-launches-robotaxi-service-in-four-additional-us-cities/ · 2026-02-25
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