So that it doesn’t become a job for anyone, riders pay the driver just 54 cents per mile—the IRS-approved rate that people can claim for business travel when using their own car. That’s much cheaper than an Uber, which can cost upwards of a dollar per mile, or far more during surge pricing.
Alphabet started testing the service in San Francisco last year, but the Wall Street Journal now reports that the plan is to “dramatically expand” it into “several U.S. cities and Latin America over the next several months.”