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Uber and Waymo to offer driverless ride-sharing trips in Austin and Atlanta

Uber will offer driverless ride-sharing trips with Waymo in Austin and Atlanta starting early 2025

"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," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a release. The expansion into two more cities is another step in Uber's advancement into the robotaxi space, after struggling to get a foothold and selling off its own self-driving division in 2020, now relying on partnerships with companies including Waymo, GM's Cruise and the SoftBank-backed U.K. startup Wayve to gain ground. Wells Fargo analyst Ken Gawrelski cited Cruise's previous safety challenges as a part of the investor skepticism, along with now-fulfilled hopes for a partnership with Waymo instead.

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