Robotaxi companies must do more to prove safety, Waymo co

Waymo co-CEO Takedra Mawakana believes other companies working on autonomous vehicles need to do more to prove their technology is safe, she said during an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 .

Mawakana had just been asked who she considered to be on the list of companies trying to make roads safer during Monday’s interview.

“I don’t know who’s on that list, because they’re not telling us what’s happening with their fleets,” she said.

Prioritizing safety while scaling operations was a big topic during the interview, and Mawakana was sure to cite the data Waymo recently released that shows, by its count, that the company’s vehicles are five times safer than human drivers and 12 times safer with respect to pedestrians.

Mawakana declined to say whether she was specifically talking ab