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Avride’s fully electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 robotaxis are now available on Uber in Dallas [Photo: Uber]
Uber Launches Robotaxi Service in Dallas, With ‘Monitors’ Behind the Wheel for Now
by David Seeley | Dec 3, 2025
Beginning today, Dallas riders using the Uber app can be matched with an Avride robotaxi—but only in 9 key square miles from downtown to Uptown to Turtle Creek to Deep Ellum. Coming to Dallas in 2026: robotaxi competition from Waymo and Lyft.
by David Seeley |
Oct 23, 2025
As Austin-based Avride ramps up testing of its robotaxis in Dallas for a planned late-2025 launch, Uber and the Nebius Group have infused the company with $375 million and "commercial commitments." Competition looms in 2026, however—both Waymo and Lyft are planning Dallas robotaxi services of their own.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 29, 2025
Waymo is the fourth company to announced plans for driverless robotaxis in Dallas. Uber and Austin-based Avride plan to offer a service later this year, with Lyft launching its own "as soon as 2026." GM's Cruise robotaxis were tested on Dallas streets before the business unit was shut down last December.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 6, 2025
As soon as later this year, Uber customers in Dallas may have the opportunity to order a ride with a Hyundai IONIQ 5 robotaxi operating self-driving tech from Austin-based Avride.
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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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by David Seeley |
Oct 13, 2023
Double takes abounded in Dallas Friday. San Francisco-based Cruise began testing its robotaxis in the city without a human behind the wheel. For now, company employees are along for the ride in the back seat of "under 10" robotaxis in the last stage of testing before the service is opened to the public.
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by David Seeley |
May 11, 2023
Earlier this month, we told you that San Francisco-based Cruise may be expanding its robotaxi ridehailing service to Dallas. Now Co-Founder and CEO Kyle Vogt has tweeted that Cruise "will go live in Houston and Dallas in the next few months. Supervised autonomous driving will start in Houston in a few days, with Dallas to follow soon after." Here's how you can get on the waitlist.
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by David Seeley |
May 1, 2023
If you haven't seen Martin Scorcese's 1976 film "Taxi Driver," better catch it soon. A robotaxi service in San Francisco may one day make real-live taxi drivers obsolete—and the next showing of this phenomenon just might happen in Dallas. Cruise, a self-driving car startup that launched in 2013 and was acquired by General Motors in 2016, says it began offering "fully driverless service" in its robotaxis to public riders in San Francisco last January. According to IoT News, Cruise may have its eyes on Dallas for its next robotaxi service location.
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