The fast expansion of Waymo’s driverless car service is growing competition for Uber. The companies are also partners.

With the Uber and Waymo robotaxi launch next month, users in Austin can sign up now for priority access to the new AVs.

In September, Uber and Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, announced the expansion of their partnership into Austin and Atlanta, after having already teamed up in ...

Uber is inviting customers to join an interest list if they want to ride in a Waymo robotaxi. Uber is inviting customers to join an interest list if they want to ride in a Waymo robotaxi.

Uber customers in Austin may notice a new offer when they open the app and hail a ride: an invitation to signal their interest in a Waymo robotaxi. For now, this doesn’t translate into a Waymo ...

(Waymo didn't respond to CNET's request for comment on that update.) The self-driving-tech company is no stranger to large-scale partnerships. In 2024, it said it was teaming up with Uber to ...

Uber, which already offers the "Waymo One" experience in three other U.S. cities, announced last September that it would begin offering driverless rides in the Live Music Capital in early 2025.

With a much-anticipated Waymo and Uber collaboration slated to bring autonomous rides to Austin this year, the Tesla announcement seems a clear indication that the most valuable car brand in the ...

In recent months, Uber has doubled down on what it calls its “platform strategy”, teaming up with robot taxi companies like Waymo ... with them and settle in court, et cetera,” Khosrowshahi ...

The Waymo robotaxi fleet will be smaller to start — although Uber would not disclose a figure — and eventually grow to hundreds of vehicles across both Austin and Atlanta over the next few years.