Waymo and Uber expand partnership to bring autonomous ride-hailing to Austin and Atlanta
Waymo and Uber are expanding their partnership to Austin and Atlanta, bringing fully autonomous rides to both cities starting early 2025. The service will be available only through the Uber app, with Uber managing and dispatching a fleet of Waymo's all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles.
The fleet will grow to hundreds of vehicles over time. Uber will handle fleet management—vehicle cleaning, repair, and depot operations—while Waymo continues to operate the Waymo Driver, including roadside assistance and rider support.
"We're thrilled to build on our successful partnership with Waymo, which has already powered fully autonomous trips for tens of thousands of riders in Phoenix," said Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber's CEO. "Soon, riders in Austin and Atlanta will be able to experience that same mobility magic."
Waymo One already provides more than 100,000 trips each week across San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. The company has begun serving fully autonomous rides to employees in Austin and will welcome a limited number of early riders into the Waymo One app before fully transitioning to the Uber app next year.
In Atlanta, Waymo and Uber will begin welcoming public riders in early 2025 via the Uber app, gradually expanding throughout the year.
This expansion shows real momentum for autonomous vehicles. While Motional paused its robotaxi deployments earlier this year, Waymo's scaling up. The difference? Waymo's hitting the metrics that matter—100,000+ weekly trips means the technology works and people actually want to use it. That's the business case Karl Iagnemma from Motional talked about needing to see.
The partnership makes sense for both companies. Uber gets to offer autonomous rides without building the tech, and Waymo gets Uber's existing rider base and operational expertise. Win-win.
Update: The autonomous vehicle market exploded in 2025. Tesla launched its Robotaxi service in the Bay Area and Austin, Lyft partnered with Waymo for Nashville in 2026 and launched with May Mobility in Atlanta, Amazon's Zoox launched its purpose-built robotaxis in Las Vegas, and Uber invested $300M in Lucid to deploy 20,000 robotaxis powered by Nuro's autonomous tech—all bringing massive scale to autonomous ride-hailing.
Source: Waymo