Uber opens the “Benefits List” for Waymo Robotaxi riding in Austin

Apply horse riding and food delivery Uber The “interest list” opens for users in Austin, Texas, who want to be in one line of Waymo robots there.

The company said in a statement that users “will be able to travel across 37 square miles from Austin-from Hyde Park, to the city center, to Montobolis”-when the Uber-Waymo service is launched soon.

The alleged interest list allows users to receive Uber updates and enhance their probability in matching the independent Waymo vehicle at launch.

Vehicles that will be part of the Austin service are the Jaguar I-Pace Electric models equipped with a driver without a driver and are called the Waymo and Uber brand.

Waymo riding in Austin will only be available through the Uber app, unlike San Francisco and Los Angeles, where the cyclists decline through the Waymo One app.

In the face of the investor pressure to intensify its independent cars strategy yet Timing Last year, she promised to start producing Robotaxis, last year, that she started testing a horseback application with some of its employees.

Although Tesla does not make safe vehicles to use without a human driver on the wheel, ready to be guided or brake at all times, Elon MuskThe auto company in January said it will start launching “horseback business” later this year “begins in Austin.

According to the Ministry of Transport in Texas, the Robotaxi commercial service test and its operation in the state does not require the same types of licenses and special permits required by other countries.

“The Texas Law allows the AV test and its operations on Texas roads as long as it meets the same safety and insurance requirements like every other vehicle on the road,” the department spokesman told CNBC via email.

It is expected that the CEO of Uber Dara Khosrowshahi will discuss the impact of automatic driving systems-or self-driving cars-on the total business and strategy of the company in the fourth quarter profit call on Wednesday.