In mid-September 2026, Waymo announced plans to launch a project with driverless systems in Munich. The press release from the American pioneer in autonomous driving services states: “With over 20 million trips completed and hundreds of thousands of commercial trips per week, we are now bringing our fully autonomous driving technology to one of the world’s leading hubs for automotive engineering and urban mobility.” The Allianz Group immediately announced
its intention to collaborate with Waymo in Europe to handle insurance, claims processing, and safety research.
A Boost from Berlin
And the move is also being celebrated at the political level: “Autonomous driving is the key to the mobility of the future. Our goal is to make Germany a world-leading hub for innovation and manufacturing in the field of autonomous driving. We have already established the legal framework for this,” explains Christian Hirte, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport, emphasizing: “The fact that a company like Waymo is betting on Germany underscores the attractiveness of our market and proves that regular autonomous mobility services can work here. We must now leverage the strengths of our economy and develop autonomous mobility solutions from Europe.”
But if you delve a little deeper into the matter, it quickly becomes clear:…
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