Uber and Waymo, the self-driving vehicle company owned by Alphabet, have officially parted ways in Phoenix, Arizona, as Uber moves forward with plans to establish a new autonomous vehicle partnership in that city.
The two companies first teamed up in 2023, with Waymo’s robotaxis being made available through Uber’s ride-hailing and food delivery apps. The Phoenix rollout was intentionally small in scale.
“Phoenix was our first pilot market with Waymo and was an intentionally limited deployment, reaching just over a dozen vehicles dedicated to the program,” an Uber spokesperson said.
A Waymo spokesperson confirmed that the vehicles previously used in the pilot have been folded back into Waymo’s own Phoenix fleet, where riders can still access them through the Waymo app directly. Waymo vehicles continue to be available through Uber in Austin and Atlanta.
Uber has announced it is gearing up to launch a different autonomous vehicle partnership in Phoenix, though the company has not revealed the name of its new partner.
The split comes in the wake of Waymo’s recent recall of nearly 3,900 robotaxis across the United States. The recall was triggered by a software problem that could cause the vehicles to enter closed freeway construction zones and keep driving.
