
Waymo just keeps growing. Driverless rides started slowly at first in a couple of cities. Now Alphabet’s robotaxi business is scaling up quickly as it heads to more markets.
On Thursday, America’s autonomous-car leader said it had cracked a new milestone: 500,000 paid rides per week. That weekly throughput has doubled in less than a year, with Waymo first crossing 250,000 rides per week last April.
Expanding into new territory has helped. Last month, Waymo started offering rides in…

