Alphabet CTO Ruth Porat announced the news during the company’s quarterly financial results call with investors last week.

Users can hail a Waymo robotaxi through the Waymo One app.

The rides will be the same price as the traditional car rides Uber offers. 

These metrics are notable as insurance claims data is often considered a more reliable indicator of road safety than police reports.

Waymo says it is the first autonomous vehicle company in the country to initiate paid trips to and from an airport.

The collaboration between Swiss Re and Waymo will unlock a unique cooperation aimed at studying these vehicles and understanding their behaviors while translating those into risk and engineering inputs. 

Established in 2009, Waymo is the only autonomous vehicle company with public ride-hailing service.

The Google self-driving-project-turned-Alphabet unit, announced that members of its Waymo One service will be able to take family and friends along on their fully driverless rides in the Phoenix area.

Waymo also has partnerships with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), and Renault Nissan Mitsubishi (The Alliance), allowing it to advance the deployment of our Waymo Driver across a variety of vehicle platforms.

This investment round follows a recent series of major operational and technical milestones.

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