Waymo puts Avis to manage the robotaxi fleet in Dallas

Waymo said he plans to launch a robot service next year in Dallas, the last city to be added to the growing trade footprint of the alphabet company already included in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

This time, Waymo is working with the AVIS budget team to manage the fleet of Jaguar I-Pace’s autonomous autonomous autonomous vehicles. Avis will handle general warehouse work, including charging and maintaining vehicles. Users will be able to spoil a robot through the Waymo app.

Waymo has worked with other companies before, including Uber in Austin and Atlanta and Moove in Phoenix. Avis is the first car rental company to help Waymo manage its fleet. And it is a partnership that will probably extend to other cities in the future.

Waymo spokesman Chris Bonelli said Avis would play a big role by helping the company reduce its technology in new markets faster and more efficiently efficient. He added that the Waymo and Avis budget team intends to expand to more cities along with time.

Waymo close fans may not be surprised by the Dalla launch announcement. Earlier this year, Waymo took one of his “road trips” to Dallas, where the company used the vehicles wearing sensors to map the city and conduct initial tests. Since then, Waymo has begun to test the autonomous vehicles on public roads with a human safety operator behind the steering wheel. As it has in any other city in which it has begun, Waymo will take full autonomous tests as soon as its technology has been further validated on the streets of Dallas.

Bonelli will not reveal exact launch dates or how many vehicles would be in the original fleet of romance. He said Waymo would escalate the fleet with Avis in hundreds of vehicles over time.

AVIS Budget Managing Director Brian Choi said the partnership marks a “central milestone in its development by a car rental company in a leading fleet management provider, infrastructure and businesses in the broader ecosystem of mobility”.

Today, Waymo operates commercially in five cities: Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Phoenix and in the San Francisco Gulf area, which extends to Silicon Valley. The company plans to launch its Robotaxi trade service next year in Washington, DC and Miami.