Dmitri Dolgov

Career

Before Google's self-driving effort, Dolgov worked on autonomous driving at Toyota and at Stanford as part of Stanford's DARPA Urban Challenge team. Dolgov was one of the founders of the Google self-driving car project in 2009.¹

The project became Waymo, an independent self-driving technology company under Alphabet, in 2016. Dolgov served as Waymo's CTO and is now co-CEO, responsible for overall company strategy with a primary focus on the Waymo Driver.¹³²

Products and projects

Waymo launched Waymo One, a commercial autonomous ride-hailing service, in Metro Phoenix in 2018 and opened its rider-only service there to the public in 2020. The company later moved its fleet to all-electric vehicles and, in 2026, added a new vehicle, the Ojai.³

Work and contributions

• Waymo Driver

  As co-CEO, primarily responsible for developing and deploying the Waymo Driver, a custom, fully autonomous technology stack designed in-house; previously led its technology as CTO.¹

Timeline

1. 2009Co-founded the Google self-driving car project.¹³
2. 2016The self-driving project became Waymo, an independent company under Alphabet.¹³
3. 2018Waymo launched Waymo One, its commercial autonomous ride-hailing service.³
4. 2020Waymo opened its fully autonomous, rider-only Waymo One service to the public.³
5. 2026Waymo added the Ojai vehicle to its fleet and launched it to riders.³

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Chief Technology Officer, Waymo¹
• Team member working on autonomous driving, Stanford University DARPA Urban Challenge team¹
• Worked on autonomous driving efforts, Toyota¹

Where they work

• Waymo 4 people in the wiki

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