Waymo Will Also Drive For Doordash In Phoenix

Waymo has announced a caller business pinch DoorDash that will make nan company's self-driving cars a transportation action for users successful Phoenix, Arizona. You tin already hail a ride successful Waymo’s Arizona work area, but this caller business will springiness nan company's cars thing to do erstwhile they're not transporting quality cargo.

To start, Waymo says that deliveries will beryllium constricted to things you tin bid done DashMart, DoorDash's storefront for convenience and market stores. Eventually, though, deliveries will "include much section Phoenix merchants and a wider assortment of offerings."

In bid to effort retired a Waymo delivery, you'll person to spot your bid done DoorDash and "opt successful to autonomous delivery" during checkout. Once Waymo's car arrives, overmuch for illustration DoorDash's Dot robot, you'll past person to physically time off your location and cod your bid from nan car's trunk to complete nan delivery. Part of nan convenience (and complication) of DoorDash is getting what you ordered brought to your door. A Waymo transportation mightiness move immoderate group off, since it makes that action impossible.

Of course, this isn't nan first clip Waymo has delivered nutrient successful Phoenix. In 2024 nan institution partnered pinch Uber Eats for a akin program, pinch akin limitations astir really deliveries were completed and wherever nutrient could beryllium ordered from. Waymo runs its ain robotaxi work successful Arizona, Waymo One, but depending connected nan region, it's besides offered rides done third-party partners for illustration Uber. Its partnerships pinch Uber Eats and DoorDash look for illustration variations connected nan aforesaid idea.

In 2020, Waymo was exploring utilizing self-driving long-haul trucks for deliveries. The institution abandoned those plans successful 2023 to prioritize robotaxis and nan Waymo Driver software, but these tests pinch DoorDash and Uber Eats could beryllium a awesome that Waymo is willing successful pursuing deliveries connected a smaller scale.