Uber opens waitlist for driverless Waymo rides in Austin

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Uber opens waitlist for driverless Waymo rides in Austin

Uber app users in Austin can now get on an “interest list” for a chance to match with Waymo autonomous cabs, according to

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. The rides aren’t available yet, but they’re coming to a 37 square miles area of the city in “early 2025” according to Bloomberg.

Uber once had self-driving ambitions of its own, but

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in 2023, and driverless spun up there in early 2024. Waymo, on the other hand, has kept some markets — like San Francisco, where driverless rides can only be booked through the Waymo One app — tightly guarded. This makes it somewhat surprising to see Waymo partnering with Uber exclusively in .

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