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Uber Users Cancel Rides With Human Drivers to Ride in Waymo Taxis
Uber users in Atlanta are dropping rides with human drivers to maximize their chances of getting a self-driving Waymo taxi.
He pointed to data from companies including Waymo, which makes programs that power autonomous vehicles, suggesting that self-driving cars are involved in fewer injury-causing accidents than those with a person behind the wheel. Riders can maximize their chances of being paired with a Waymo car by avoiding trips that involve freeway driving, riding outside high-demand times like nights and weekends, and making sure that their pick-up and drop-off points are within the current 65-square-mile Atlanta service area, the spokesperson said. However, most of the survey's respondents who reside in cities with at least 1 million people — the kind of dense, urban environments that ride-hailing services and autonomous-car-makers have focused on so far — said that they had or would take a ride in a self-driving car.
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