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A Tesla robotaxi driving a customer from a company video. [Video: Tesla Robotaxi]
Tesla Launches Robotaxis in Dallas and Houston
by David Seeley | Apr 20, 2026
The Dallas rollout features Model Y EVs equipped with Tesla’s latest self-driving software, serving a portion of central Dallas from downtown northward to Northwest Highway. The competition: Waymo and a partnership between Uber and Austin-based Avride, with Amazon's Zoox robotaxi service coming to Dallas soon.
by David Seeley |
Mar 10, 2026
The Dallas expansion will begin with manual mapping by Zoox’s SUV testing fleet. Later, the Amazon-owned company plans to roll out its toaster-shaped, bidirectional robotaxis with facing bench seats and no true “front” or “back.”
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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.
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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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Hyundai IONIQ 5 robotaxi equipped with Avride's self-driving technology. [Photo: Avride]
Robotaxi Rollout: Avride, Hyundai To Partner on Self-Driving Uber Rides in Dallas
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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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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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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A Cruise robotaxi in action. [Photo: Cruise]
Cruise Is Operating Robotaxis 24/7 in San Francisco—and Dallas Might Be Its Next Stop
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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