{"id":1149,"date":"2024-09-13T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2024-09-16T03:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T03:03:32","slug":"uber-waymo-expanding-autonomous-ride-hailing-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/uber-waymo-expanding-autonomous-ride-hailing-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber, Waymo expanding autonomous ride-hailing partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.uber.com\/news-events\/news\/press-release-details\/2024\/Uber-and-Waymo-Expand-Partnership-to-Bring-Autonomous-Ride-Hailing-to-Austin-and-Atlanta\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced Friday<\/a> it will offer self-driving vehicles for riders in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta next year through its partnership with Waymo.<\/p>\n<p>The companies will offer all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles for customers seeking UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric trips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoon, riders in Austin and Atlanta will be able to experience that same mobility magic, through a new fleet of dedicated autonomous Waymo vehicles, available only on Uber,\u201d Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said.<\/p>\n<p>Waymo will manage rider-support functions including roadside assistance and handle the testing and operations of its Waymo Driver autonomous driving technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been delighted at the positive feedback from our Waymo One riders to date, and we can\u2019t wait to bring the comfort, convenience, and safety of the Waymo Driver to these cities in partnership with Uber,\u201d Tekedra Mawakana, the co-CEO of Waymo, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Waymo also said its autonomous driving service has successfully completed 100,000 trips across San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles, adding it has provided approximately 2 million rider-only trips in total.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated at 12:14 p.m. EDT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber announced Friday it will offer self-driving vehicles for riders in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta next year through its partnership with Waymo. The companies will offer all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles for customers seeking UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric trips. \u201cSoon, riders in Austin and Atlanta will be able to experience that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}