Waymo is an autonomous car development company and subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). Google began testing self-driving cars in 2009 and announced that it plans to allow everyone in Phoenix to request a driverless ride before the end of year. Since 2009, Waymo's fleet has self-driven more than 7 million miles, mostly on city streets, which builds on 2.7 billion miles driven in simulation in 2017 alone. Parent company Alphabet describes Waymo as "a self-driving tech company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around."