Waymo’s self-driving trucking unit is partnering with Uber Freight to deploy a bunch of autonomous vehicles.

The partnership will see Waymo prospects use Uber Freight to extra effectively plan their human-operated and automatic trucking fleets. At the moment, Uber Freight’s software program serves as a center man and connects truckers with shippers. Doing so reduces delivery prices, Reuters notes.

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Waymo By way of isn’t the one firm that Uber Freight is working with. Following the ride-hailing large’s resolution to promote its self-driving unit to Aurora in 2020, it has since partnered with Aurora by Uber Freight.

Alphabet’s self-driving division is seeking to promote self-driving trucking providers to giant retailers and logistics firms. Beneath this plan, prospects would buy and personal the self-driving vehicles whereas additionally paying a per-mile utilization price to the corporate.

This isn’t the one important partnership that Waymo’s self-driving trucking division has. The corporate has been working with UPS for greater than two years and in November final yr, commenced a sequence of autonomous trial runs with its Class 8 vehicles geared up with the fifth-generation Waymo Driver system. These vehicles performed deliveries for UPS’s North American Air Freight unit between amenities in Dallas-Fort Price and Houston.

Waymo can be working alongside Daimler on a totally autonomous, Stage 4 system for vehicles and is testing a fleet of Peterbilt vehicles in Arizona, California, and Texas. Autonomous vehicles at the moment being examined by Waymo have a commercially licensed driver and a Waymo software program engineer within the cabin always.