Waymo

Waymo is an autonomous vehicle company owned by Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, making it a target to the same boycott as Google due to its complicity in Israeli genocide as documented in the 2025 UN Human Rights Council report and Google's $1.2 billion military contracts through Project Nimbus.

Military Origins

Waymo's technology is linked to the DARPA Grand Challenge, a U.S. military competition launched to develop autonomous vehicles for combat zones in response to improvised explosive device attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sebastian Thrun, who won in the 2005 DARPA Challenge, was hired by Google in 2009 to build their self-driving car project, which became Waymo in 2016.

Sources:

• Arrow Electronics From DARPA to Google: How the Military Kickstarted AV Development
• UN Human Rights Council Report A/HRC/59/23