Waymo is getting into the corporate travel business (techcrunch.com)

Waymo launched "Waymo for Business," a corporate-facing service that lets companies create accounts to subsidize employees’ robotaxi trips, buy bulk promo codes for clients or staff, and manage programs through a business portal. Available today in Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Francisco (and using Uber’s app in some markets like Austin), rides cost the same as Waymo’s consumer service and are still hailed through the Waymo One or integrated Uber app. The portal gives firms granular controls — defining geographic service zones, permitted pickup/drop-off locations, monitoring ride activity and budgets — and Waymo has already signed Carvana as an early customer. The move is significant because it turns Waymo’s autonomous fleet into an enterprise mobility product, opening a predictable revenue channel beyond consumer hails and deepening competition with Uber and Lyft (especially at airports). For the AI/ML community it signals more real-world deployment scale: greater fleet utilization, richer operational telematics for optimization, and tighter policy-driven routing/geofencing use cases. As Waymo continues national expansion and airport integrations, Waymo for Business could accelerate adoption of autonomous mobility in corporate travel programs while raising practical considerations around privacy, data sharing, and regulatory coordination for enterprise-controlled robotaxi deployments.