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What the Waymo Driver 6th-gen knows about you
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.
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11 findings on record · 11 verified against primary sources
What it collects about you
Where your data goes
What you can control
What it collects about you
The data this device picks up.
Your location
Collects your pickup and drop-off locations, your full route, and device location during every trip.
Recording you
The interior microphones are off except during a voice call with Rider Support or when you choose to turn them on.
Recording you
Interior microphones are not continuously recording. They only activate during voice calls with Rider Support or when you explicitly turn them on.
Your location
Collects your precise pickup and drop-off locations, your full route, and your device's location throughout each trip.
Where your data goes
Who else can see it once it leaves the device.
Selling your data
Waymo may share and sell your identifiers and network activity to advertising partners for targeted ads, which it says may count as a sale under California law.
Training their AI
Waymo drafted a policy to use interior camera footage linked to your identity to train generative AI models, with an opt-out option planned.
Training their AI
Waymo drafted a policy to use interior camera footage associated with rider identity to train generative AI models, with an opt-out mechanism planned.
Selling your data
Waymo acknowledges it may share and sell your identifiers and network activity to advertising partners, which qualifies as a sale or share under California law.
Shared with others
Shares your data with service providers and advertising partners including social media platforms. Acknowledges that sharing identifiers and network activity with ad partners may count as a sale under California law, and offers a Do Not Sell or Share opt-out.
What you can control
Your say over the data it holds.
How long they keep it
Account info including name, email, and trip history is kept while your account is active, and may be kept longer for disputes, investigations, product improvement, safety, fraud prevention, and legal compliance.
Deleting your data
You can access, update, and delete your data through account controls. California residents can request deletion by contacting privacy@waymo.com.
The full record
- Lidar
- 4
- Drive mode
- fully_autonomous
- Generation
- 6
- Lidar count
- 4
- Radar count
- 6
- Camera count
- 13