We may have uncovered San Francisco’s most active Waymo rider—and we’re ready for rivals to prove us wrong.
Waymo rewarded riders who logged more than three trips in 2025 with a personalized “Year in Review.” Think of it as a Waymo Wrapped, a Spotify-style recap that counts your trips and assigns you a “Waymotype”—labels like power rider, night owl, or newcomer based on how you ride.
That prompted a natural question: just how far does Waymo devotion stretch in the city by the Bay? The Standard set out to locate SF’s most prolific Waymo traveler.
Here’s the good news: we may have found her (though challengers are welcome). The bad news: she prefers to stay anonymous.
The anonymous San Francisco power rider racked up 427 rides this year and earned the “power user” badge. She traveled more than 2,700 miles in Waymo’s robotaxi fleet—roughly the distance from here to New York—and spent almost eight full days being chauffeured around.
But we also found a Waymo devotee who doesn’t mind being in the spotlight: Lee Edwards, a general partner at Root Ventures, logged 383 rides this year—more than one ride per day on average.
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Edwards lives in Noe Valley and runs seed-stage startup investments. He uses Waymo because it makes it easier to work on his laptop and take calls inside the vehicle. He also regards it as safer and smoother than a human-driven Uber or Lyft.
“I’ll take Muni when it’s a very close, point-to-point trip, but that’s pretty rare given how my meetings are spread across the city,” Edwards said, noting he’s taken more than 1,000 Waymo rides since the Bay Area service began. “Plus I invest in deep tech and AI, so the vibe fits.”
When told we’d found someone with more rides than him, Edwards replied with a chuckle: “hahah damn.”
Waymo expanded aggressively in the Bay Area this year, rolling out freeway driving and starting service at San Jose Mineta Airport. The Alphabet-backed robotaxi firm now covers a unified Bay Area area exceeding 260 square miles, though not all riders can currently ride on freeways.
Waymo operates in five U.S. markets and began serving 1 million rides per month in March. It tallied 14 million rides in 2025—more than triple its 2024 total—and has announced plans to grow to more than 20 cities next year, including Tokyo and London.
The company is poised to face new competition in San Francisco in the coming year, as Amazon-owned Zoox launches a commercial service and Uber rolls out a robotaxi collaboration with Nuro and Lucid Motors. Tesla’s robotaxi, which still includes a front-seat safety driver, is expected to move toward full autonomy.
