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Waymo has autonomously chauffeured some 150,000 customers in Dallas since starting its service in February. [Photo: Waymo]
The Waitlist Is Over: Waymo Offers Central Dallas Rides to Anyone on the App
by Sandra Engelland | Aug 5, 2026
Since rolling out the service in Dallas in February, Waymo has autonomously chauffeured some 150,000 customers. The company also is testing at Dallas Love Field and preparing to run its vehicles on area freeways.
by AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone |
Jun 2, 2026
Hillwood’s 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development has long served as a proving ground for what’s next in logistics. Now, through decades of public-private partnership, the creation of a Smart Port, and the integration of forward-thinking policy, AllianceTexas is helping define the future of freight by positioning North Texas to lead in the algorithmic age of supply chain infrastructure.
sponsored by AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone
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by David Seeley |
Feb 11, 2025
GM's Cruise robotaxis have come and gone from Dallas streets without a commercial rollout here. Uber is planning a robotaxi service in Dallas later in 2025. Now Lyft has announced its own robotaxi launch in Dallas "as soon as 2026"—via a partnership with companies in Japan and Israel.
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In October 2024, Uber and Avride announced an autonomous delivery and mobility partnership that was to bring robot deliveries to Dallas later in 2024, followed by a robotaxi service in 2025. [Photo: Business Wire]
Uber and Avride Partner To Offer Robotaxis and Robot Meal Deliveries in Dallas
by David Seeley | Oct 3, 2024
With Cruise robotaxis already being tested in Dallas, more autonomous innovation is on the way to the city in 2024 and 2025 via a partnership between Uber and Austin-based Avride. Uber and Uber Eats customers may have the option to select a robotaxi for their next ride across town or a sidewalk robot to roll their favorite restaurant order home.
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![A Cruise robotaxi, pictured in Downtown Dallas in June 2024, could potentially benefit from U.S. Patent No. 12062290. Recently granted to GM Cruise Holdings and invented by Dallas’s Clifton Trigg Hutchinson, the patent describes a system for dynamically dispatching autonomous vehicles. This technology enables real-time route adjustments based on user location updates, enhancing urban transport efficiency. [Photo: Cruise]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Cruise-robotaxi_Dallas-970x464-1-360x203.jpg)
by David Seeley |
Jul 24, 2024
After a months-long pause following a pedestrian collision in San Francisco last October, Cruise robotaxis are being tested once again in Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix—without paying customers and with a "safety driver" in the car, the New York Times reports.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 18, 2024
The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, will pilot low-altitude weather sensors on freight routes used by autonomous vehicles.
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 1, 2023
With the help of the U.S. Department of Energy grant, the city of Arlington said it will conduct an innovative pilot program to test the efficiency and scalability of using autonomous, electric drone and robot delivery vehicles. The goal: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions while serving residents in need.
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Still frame from STEER Tech video demonstrating its driverless parking technology. [Image: STEER Tech]
Autonomous Parking Is Coming to DFW International Airport
by Kevin Cummings | Apr 7, 2022
The pilot is funded through the NCTCOG’s Regional Transportation Council’s (RTC) Automated Vehicles Program.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 21, 2021
The "S-AM" hybrid electric minivans—short for "Sienna Autonomo-MaaS"—will be tested in a six-month pilot program in Dallas, Pittsburgh, the San Francisco Bay areal, and other locations. Aurora intends to deploy the vehicles on ride-hailing networks in late 2024.
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by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland |
Feb 23, 2021
From ABIA to Zyvex, Dallas-Fort Worth companies are at the forefront of innovations in AI, 5G, quantum computing, genomics, and more.
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by Chantal Canales |
Sep 1, 2020
The virtual panel of leaders from Ericsson and Kodiak discussed Dallas' growth and how startups can seek funding and partnerships from large corporations.
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Japanese Mobility Supplier DENSO Opens $1.3M R&D Center in Plano
by Lance Murray | Sep 18, 2019
DENSO's Texas Innovation and Connected Service Center—strategically located near longtime partner Toyota North America—will become part of the company’s larger global R&D network and help advance its work in mobility and autonomous vehicles.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 26, 2017
Thomas Bamonte is at the controls of NCTCG’s efforts to make the region a national leader in driverless technology and the public policies that will address it.
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by Julia Batlle |
Apr 3, 2017
A new study's findings predicts a huge shift in transportation in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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by Dave Moore |
Feb 3, 2017
Alliance for Transportation Innovation allowed people to try out the driverless EasyMile shuttle during its Thursday stop in North Texas.
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