DoorDashers are getting paid to shut Waymo’s self-driving automobile doorways

A couple of days in the past, a Redditor posted in the neighborhood for DoorDash drivers that they acquired a suggestion to shut a Waymo automobile’s door. The job paid a assured price of $6.25 with a $5 additional on prime of it after the DoorDasher verifies that it has been accomplished. Waymo has confirmed to 404Media and TechCrunch that, sure, it’s certainly paying Dashers to close the doorways of its self-driving automobiles. And it is sensible as a result of, properly, there’s no person to do it in any other case if a passenger by chance leaves it open.

The Alphabet subsidiary and DoorDash informed the publications that it’s presently working a pilot program in Atlanta, whereby if certainly one of its automobile’s doorways is left ajar, close by Dashers are notified. Waymo’s self-driving autos can’t go away if certainly one of its doorways stays open, so the corporate is framing this system as a strategy to improve its fleet’s effectivity. Waymo informed 404Media that this system began earlier this yr and that funds are structured to make sure “aggressive and honest compensation for Dashers.”

To notice, this isn’t the primary time the 2 corporations have teamed up. In October 2025, Waymo’s self-driving automobiles became a delivery option for DoorDash prospects in Phoenix, Arizona. To get a Waymo supply, prospects should select “choose in to autonomous supply” throughout checkout and to bodily retrieve their order from the automobile’s trunk when it arrives.