Imagine opening an app, booking a ride, and a vehicle with no driver shows up to take you to a long-awaited errand. That’s no longer a concept. It’s a reality in Nashville. Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) stock is up 4% in Wednesday’s session, moving from $305.46 to $317 as investors cheer the latest geographic expansion of Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service. That gain outpaced the broader Communication Services sector,

Waymo's driverless taxis began picking up paying riders in Houston in late February, marking the latest expansion of autonomous vehicles in Texas.

Waymo's weekly paid robotaxi trips have increased tenfold in less than two years.

Waymo is forced to pick up far away from the gate, especially when the AirTrain station in your terminal is closed. I describe the issues of an SFO Waymo ride for now

TikTok user Alyson Aranda shared a clip of a Waymo vehicle stopped and facing the wrong direction in the restaurant's drive-thru lane. In the Alamo City, one of nine places the company operates, select passengers can board the Jaguar I-Pace. On its website, Waymo is described as a "fully autonomous ride-hailing service."

Would you still jump in a Waymo if your ride pulled up the wrong way through a drive-thru? That was the bizarre dilemma facing a Los Angeles woman on Friday when a driverless car operated by Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google parent company Alphabet,

Alphabet (NasdaqGS:GOOGL) faces a new privacy lawsuit tied to Google’s indexing and surfacing of unredacted court records. Waymo reports reaching over 500,000 paid robotaxi rides per week across 10 U.