Uber To Offer Autonomous Rides Through Alphabet’s Waymo
- Former bitter rivals have worked more closely in past year
- Uber abandoned its own former self-driving ambitions
A camera sensor on a Waymo autonomous vehicle.
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Uber Technologies Inc. will soon begin offering rides in self-driving cars through a partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo, the companies said on Tuesday, a move that nudges autonomous driving closer to the mainstream.
Later this year, Uber will begin transporting passengers and making deliveries in parts of Arizona using cars outfitted with autonomous driving technology from Waymo. The service will be limited to a set number of vehicles in a 180-square-mile swath of the greater Phoenix area where Waymo operates, the companies said.