. This means that users of the Uber app will summon up a ride, and they may get the option to select having that ride in a Waymo with nobody up front. They will pay the Uber price, though because Waymo uses luxury electric Jaguars, they may show up at the UberX, Uber Comfort, Uber Green and Uber Comfort Electric pricing levels.
In addition, people ordering food with Uber Eats may find a Waymo bringing the food. In that case, the restaurant will need to have an employee put the food in the Waymo, and the customer will have to go to the curb — normally an Uber Eats driver does those tasks, and it remains to be seen if restaurants will be diligent about going out, particularly if the Waymo doesn’t find a good waiting spot.
There are several interesting aspects to this deal. First, Uber is a competitor of Waymo, and former lawsuit adversary, and even has a large investment in and partnership with Aurora. Secondly, Waymo has been changing prices, but now the Waymo ride will be available through many pricing levels — the Uber ones, and Waymo’s own. Only a subset of the Waymo vehicles will do Uber work. The partnership starts later this year and is scheduled to run for years.
In addition, Uber ATG’s self-driving project was led for a time by Anthony Levandowski, who left Waymo and faced a major lawsuit and received a criminal conviction for appropriating secrets from Waymo. He escaped jail time only through a pardon from President Trump, but the lawsuit between Waymo, Uber and Levandowski was bitter and expensive and Waymo prevailed.
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