The company, however, suspended its ride hailing service in downtown Los Angeles “out of an abundance of caution” and coordinated with the Los Angeles Police Department to take its fleet out of the area.

A new analysis done by ride-hailing aggregator Obi shows Waymos cost more especially on shorter trips. They also have longer wait times.

Obi, the global real-time aggregator for rideshare prices, today released The Road Ahead: Pricing Insights on Waymo, Uber and Lyft, a data-driven analysis comparing the rideshare giants in the real world.

Waymo's autonomous vehicles have become part of the everyday landscape in a growing number of US cities, serving as safe transport options, tourist attractions, and symbols of a not-so-distant future.

The two approaches could not be more different, in ways that suggest different possible futures for what autonomous vehicles mean for society. That kind of progress hasn’t come cheap. Google parent company Alphabet has sunk billions into the technology,