Waymo’s robotaxis are now available on the Uber app in Atlanta

Uber customers successful Atlanta present person the enactment of hailing a driverless Waymo robotaxi, the institution announced today. Atlanta is the 2nd market, after Austin, to play big to Uber and Waymo’s burgeoning autonomous ridehail partnership.

At launch, Waymo’s vehicles volition beryllium disposable exclusively connected the Uber app successful Atlanta. The 2 companies archetypal announced a woody to enactment Waymo’s robotaxis connected the Uber app back successful 2023, indicating that Austin would beryllium first, followed by Atlanta. Waymo’s ain ridehail app, Waymo One, volition not beryllium operational successful Atlanta; customers who unfastened Waymo One volition beryllium redirected to Uber’s app.

Waymo’s vehicles volition lone run wrong a 65-square-mile work country that includes Atlanta’s Downtown, Buckhead, and Capitol View neighborhoods. The vehicles don’t thrust connected highways yet, nor volition they marque trips to the airport. Another happening to consider: simply calling an Uber successful Waymo’s work country doesn’t warrant a robotaxi volition amusement up. Like successful Austin, the companies volition commencement with a tiny fleet of vehicles and turn from there.

Customers tin summation their chances of being matched with a Waymo conveyance by opting into autonomous rides successful the Ride Preferences conception of their Uber app. The rides volition outgo the aforesaid arsenic a emblematic UberX, Uber Comfort, oregon Uber Comfort Electric ride. Once the Waymo conveyance arrives, customers tin unlock the door, unfastened the trunk, and commencement the thrust from the Uber app. Rides tin besides beryllium started by pressing the fastener connected the rear touchscreen successful the vehicle.

Uber volition negociate fleet services, including conveyance cleaning, maintenance, inspections, EV charging, and depot operations. The institution is contracting with Avmo (formerly Moove Cars) to grip these tasks. Waymo is inactive liable for conveyance testing, roadside assistance, and definite elements of rider support. The companies volition evidently stock successful the costs and the gross produced by the robotaxi service, though some companies person declined to stock the split.

Uber and Waymo, erstwhile rivals turned improbable partners, person said they volition enactment unneurotic to get much radical to usage driverless vehicles. But the concern isn’t exclusive; Uber besides is moving with over a dozen other autonomous mobility companies, including sidewalk robot operators for its Uber Eats business. The institution says it has rapidly grown to an yearly tally complaint of 1.5 cardinal robotaxi and transportation robot trips connected its network.

While galore Atlanta residents volition beryllium experiencing a driverless car for the archetypal time, Waymo isn’t caller to the city. The institution archetypal started gathering mapping information and manually investigating its vehicles successful Atlanta back successful 2018. Fully driverless investigating started successful January 2025, followed by aboriginal rider trips successful May 2025.

For those keeping score, determination were astir 283 days betwixt identifying Atlanta arsenic a aboriginal robotaxi metropolis and launching the work connected the Uber app.

Waymo’s occurrence depends partially connected narrowing that model for aboriginal cities successful bid to beryllium its scalability, while keeping an oculus connected safety. Waymo presently conducts astir 250,000 rides each week successful its 4 main markets. The institution has besides said it volition motorboat successful Miami and Washington, DC with its ain Waymo One app.