Uber Eats teams up with Waymo

In October, Uber and Alphabet's Waymo announced a partnership in Phoenix, a US city, where riders could opt-in to be driven around by Waymo's self-driving Jaguar I-PACEs. Uber's long-term goal is to fully integrate self-driving cars across all of their urban operations. Uber did stress in the partnership announcement that the number of human drivers on its platform would continue to grow for a very long time.

The partnership has now been expanded to include Uber Eats deliveries. Uber says that when the autonomous vehicle arrives, you'll receive an in-app notification to take your phone with you to unlock the vehicle and collect your items.

Having an expensive Jaguar I-PACE deliver food isn't really economical. Uber seems to be gathering data now for when self-driving technology expands to small vehicles. The whole partnership sounds cool.