{"id":207776,"date":"2025-03-04T07:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/heres-how-to-book-a-driverless-uber-ride-in-austin"},"modified":"2025-03-04T07:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:07:41","slug":"heres-how-to-book-a-driverless-uber-ride-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/heres-how-to-book-a-driverless-uber-ride-in-austin","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how to book a driverless Uber ride in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-to-book-a-driverless-uber-ride-in-austin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 Beep beep \u2014 Uber rideshare users can now book a driverless ride around Austin, as the ridehailing company officially launches its partnership with Waymo.<\/p>\n<p>Waymo and Uber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/waymo-uber-launching-driverless-rideshare-services-in-austin-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced in September<\/a> the planned collaboration between the two companies, with rollouts poised in both Austin and Atlanta in 2025. Beginning Tuesday, Uber users can match with one of Waymo\u2019s Jaguar I-PACE vehicles while booking an UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting today, Austin riders can be matched with a Waymo autonomous vehicle on the Uber app, making their next trip even more special,\u201d Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in the announcement. \u201cWith Waymo\u2019s technology and Uber\u2019s proven platform, we\u2019re excited to introduce our customers to a future of transportation that is increasingly electric and autonomous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 Beep beep \u2014 Uber rideshare users can now book a driverless ride around Austin, as the ridehailing company officially launches its partnership with Waymo. Waymo and Uber announced in September the planned collaboration between the two companies, with rollouts poised in both Austin and Atlanta in 2025. Beginning Tuesday, Uber users can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}