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A few years ago, I drove for Uber and Lyft in the Phoenix metro. People at the airport parking lots and Uber driver Facebook groups kept saying that robotaxis weren’t coming for our jobs, but I figured differently. We were already sharing the road with test vehicles not only from Waymo, but also Uber’s modified Volvos. As we all know,, and I figured we didn’t have much time before those Volvos took our jobs, assuming Tesla didn’t take everyone’s jobs faster.
When an Uber customer requests an UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric ride through the Uber app, they will have the option to choose a ride in a Waymo vehicle . This marks the first launch of the strategic partnership between Uber and Waymo, which was announced earlier this year .Uber’s getting past old failures , and autonomous services are available via the app now.
That all having been said, the companies still have a long road ahead of them. Waymo needs to grow to include the whole Phoenix metro area, and the company needs to expand into many more metro areas than the handful Waymo operates in now. While it seems technically possible, Waymo still hasn’t expanded to the whole Phoenix area. A whole new city would require new high-definition maps and every other effort the company has put in at the current sites Waymo operates in.
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