At launch, Waymo’s autos might be accessible solely on the Uber app in Atlanta. The 2 corporations first introduced a deal to place Waymo’s robotaxis on the Uber app again in 2023, indicating that Austin could be first, adopted by Atlanta. Waymo’s personal ridehail app, Waymo One, is not going to be operational in Atlanta; clients who open Waymo One might be redirected to Uber’s app.
Waymo’s autos will solely function inside a 65-square-mile service space that features Atlanta’s Downtown, Buckhead, and Capitol View neighborhoods. The autos don’t drive on highways but, nor will they make journeys to the airport. One other factor to contemplate: merely calling an Uber in Waymo’s service space doesn’t assure a robotaxi will present up. Like in Austin, the businesses will begin with a small fleet of autos and develop from there.
Prospects can enhance their probabilities of being matched with a Waymo automobile by opting into autonomous rides within the Trip Preferences part of their Uber app. The rides will price the identical as a typical UberX, Uber Consolation, or Uber Consolation Electrical journey. As soon as the Waymo automobile arrives, clients can unlock the door, open the trunk, and begin the journey from the Uber app. Rides can be began by urgent the button on the rear touchscreen within the automobile.
Uber will handle fleet companies, together with automobile cleansing, upkeep, inspections, EV charging, and depot operations. The corporate is contracting with Avmo (previously Moove Vehicles) to deal with these duties. Waymo continues to be answerable for automobile testing, roadside help, and sure parts of rider help. The businesses will clearly share within the prices and the income produced by the robotaxi service, although each corporations have declined to share the break up.
Uber and Waymo, former rivals turned unlikely companions, have stated they’ll work collectively to get extra folks to make use of driverless autos. However the partnership isn’t unique; Uber is also working with over a dozen different autonomous mobility corporations, together with sidewalk robotic operators for its Uber Eats enterprise. The corporate says it has rapidly grown to an annual run fee of 1.5 million robotaxi and supply robotic journeys on its community.
Whereas many Atlanta residents might be experiencing a driverless automobile for the primary time, Waymo isn’t new to town. The corporate first began gathering mapping information and manually testing its autos in Atlanta again in 2018. Absolutely driverless testing began in January 2025, adopted by early passenger journeys in Could 2025.
For these preserving rating, there have been roughly 283 days between figuring out Atlanta as a future robotaxi metropolis and launching the service on the Uber app.
Waymo’s success relies upon partly on narrowing that window for future cities in an effort to show its scalability, whereas maintaining a tally of security. Waymo at present conducts roughly 250,000 rides every week in its 4 important markets. The corporate has additionally stated it would launch in Miami and Washington, DC with its personal Waymo One app.
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