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

A number of days in the past, a Redditor posted locally for DoorDash drivers that they obtained a proposal to shut a Waymo automobile’s door. The job paid a assured payment of $6.25 with a $5 further on high 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 unintentionally leaves it open.

The Alphabet subsidiary and DoorDash advised the publications that it’s at present operating a pilot program in Atlanta, whereby if one among its automobile’s doorways is left ajar, close by Dashers are notified. Waymo’s self-driving automobiles can’t depart if one among its doorways stays open, so the corporate is framing this system as a strategy to improve its fleet’s effectivity. Waymo advised 404Media that this system began earlier this 12 months and that funds are structured to make sure “aggressive and honest compensation for Dashers.”

To notice, this isn’t the primary time the 2 firms 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 must select “choose in to autonomous supply” throughout checkout and to bodily retrieve their order from the automotive’s trunk when it arrives.