Waymo’s ever-expanding robotaxi aspirations have unfold to the company world.

The Alphabet-owned self-driving car unit has launched “Waymo for Enterprise,” a brand new service designed for firms to arrange accounts so their staff can entry robotaxis in cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco.

Waymo introduced Wednesday in a weblog publish it’s inviting organizations to join Waymo for Enterprise. The brand new a service will let companies subsidize their staff’ rides or buy promo codes in bulk, which could be handed out to shoppers, clients, or staff. The Waymo for Enterprise rides will value the identical as its common service.

One in all Waymo’s first clients is Carvana, the Phoenix-based on-line used automotive market.

Whereas riders already use Waymo’s robotaxis to commute to work, that is the corporate’s first coordinated coomercial effort to focus on companies and different organizations. Waymo has mentioned almost one in six of its native riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix depend on Waymo to commute to work or college.

Immediately, customers open up the Waymo One app (or in some cities like Austin, the Uber app) to hail a experience. That course of received’t change for workers whose firms have signed up for Waymo for Enterprise. What does change is the management firms can exert over the service.

Via the Waymo for Enterprise service, firms have entry to a enterprise portal that offers the organizations management over their experience packages. Company clients can dictate the geographic space their staff use the robotaxis, set pickup and drop-off places and monitor experience exercise and observe their finances.

Waymo mentioned it plans to deliver its new enterprise service to different cities like Washington DC and Miami, as soon as it has launched industrial operations in these markets.

Waymo has ramped up operations over the previous 18 months making it the dominant robotaxi service supplier in america. The corporate has expanded its industrial service from Phoenix to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, and Atlanta. Extra cities are slated for 2026.

But it surely’s additionally sought different means to draw clients past increasing its geographic footprint. Waymo has gained entry to the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, the San Jose Mineta Worldwide Airport, and shortly the San Francisco Airport, unlocking a crucial service that instantly competes with ride-hailing firms Uber and Lyft; it has additionally partnered with public transit companies firm By way of, even opened its robotaxis to teenagers (with a mother or father’s account.)