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What if Riders Don't Close a Robotaxi Door After a Ride? Try DoorDash.
Waymo pays DoorDash drivers around $11 per task to close robotaxi doors left open by passengers, enabling vehicles to resume service quickly during the Atlanta pilot.
- On Thursday, Waymo confirmed the Atlanta pilot pays DoorDash drivers and Honk users to close robotaxi doors left ajar, enabling vehicles to resume service quickly.
- When a passenger leaves a door open, a Waymo vehicle cannot depart and may block traffic, halting rides until the door-closing partnership, which began earlier this year, resolves it.
- DoorDash notifies nearby drivers through the app to close Waymo doors, offering $6.25 plus a $5 bonus, while Reddit showed offers up to $11.25 and $24 in LA.
- The program lets Dashers restore vehicles quickly, improving fleet uptime and avoiding traffic flow issues, while Waymo said future Waymo vehicles with automated door-closing will enhance this process.
- Despite advances, Waymo's reliance on gig workers for door fixes underscores current tech limits, as confirmed by a viral Reddit post and the company. Waymo sits in Alphabet's Other Bets, which raised $16 billion at a $126 billion valuation, despite a $7.5 billion operating loss last year.
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