At launch, Waymo’s automobiles will likely be out there completely 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 can be first, adopted by Atlanta. Waymo’s personal ridehail app, Waymo One, won’t be operational in Atlanta; clients who open Waymo One will likely be redirected to Uber’s app.
Waymo’s automobiles will solely function inside a 65-square-mile service space that features Atlanta’s Downtown, Buckhead, and Capitol View neighborhoods. The automobiles 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 automobiles and develop from there.
Prospects can enhance their possibilities of being matched with a Waymo car by opting into autonomous rides within the Experience 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 car arrives, clients can unlock the door, open the trunk, and begin the journey from the Uber app. Rides will also be began by urgent the button on the rear touchscreen within the car.
Uber will handle fleet companies, together with car cleansing, upkeep, inspections, EV charging, and depot operations. The corporate is contracting with Avmo (previously Moove Automobiles) to deal with these duties. Waymo remains to be answerable for car testing, roadside help, and sure parts of rider assist. The businesses will clearly share within the prices and the income produced by the robotaxi service, although each corporations have declined to share the cut up.
Uber and Waymo, former rivals turned unlikely companions, have mentioned they may work collectively to get extra individuals to make use of driverless automobiles. 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 shortly grown to an annual run charge of 1.5 million robotaxi and supply robotic journeys on its community.
Whereas many Atlanta residents will likely 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 automobiles in Atlanta again in 2018. Totally driverless testing began in January 2025, adopted by early passenger journeys in Might 2025.
For these maintaining 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 with a view to show its scalability, whereas maintaining a tally of security. Waymo at the moment conducts roughly 250,000 rides every week in its 4 major markets. The corporate has additionally mentioned it should launch in Miami and Washington, DC with its personal Waymo One app.
