Two popular ride-sharing companies are now preparing to offer a new feature: driverless taxis.
Uber and Lyft are currently training staff on how to maintain their self-driving cars ahead of their public release in the coming months.
Once launched, Uber customers in Atlanta and Austin, Texas, will be able to hail one of these driverless rideshare vehicles via the app.
There have been concerns about the effectiveness of these Waymo driverless cars due to software glitches. repeated honking Last August, in a parking lot in San Francisco.
In 2023, activists targeted these Robotaxis campaign with conedisrupting the industry by disabling sensors in traffic cones.
A man heads to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in December. I posted a video LinkedIn shows his Waymo vehicle circling around due to a glitch.
Waymo told NewsNation that the issue has since been fixed with a software update, and that the man's arrival was only delayed by about five minutes.
The vehicle debuted in Los Angeles in 2023 and has become a common sight in traffic. Customers in California and Arizona can hail a taxi through the Waymo One app.
Both Uber and Lyft are developing robotaxi partnerships to offer driverless rides in the future and earn a cut of their fares.
Tesla is expected to join the race in the future, and Amazon is testing its own driverless car called Zoox.
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