US Robotaxi Status: November 2026

Expansion: on September 1, 2026 Waymo opened paid, fully driverless public service in Denver, CO, San Diego, CA and Tampa, FL, and on September 14, 2026 it opened Las Vegas, NV, its first public service in Nevada and its 15th US metro. All four began on a rolling-invite basis rather than opening all at once (Waymo says more than 100,000 people registered interest in Las Vegas). On October 14, 2026 Waymo opened San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa to everyone: anyone in those service areas can now book in the Waymo app without waiting for an invitation, including trips to and from San Antonio International Airport (Waymo's October 14, 2026 post; News 4 San Antonio, October 14, 2026). Waymo's Help Center service-area page, checked November 9, 2026, marks only Denver and Las Vegas as 'Gradually adding riders', so those two are still by invitation. Per launch reporting Denver and San Diego start Ojai-only while Tampa runs a mix of Ojai and Jaguar I-PACE, and Waymo says Las Vegas joins Denver and San Diego as a majority-Ojai fleet; each city starts with dozens of vehicles. The Las Vegas zone covers roughly 24 square miles (the Strip from Boulder Junction up to Sahara Avenue, Allegiant Stadium, and parts of Spring Valley and the east side), and rides are paid, which makes Waymo the first of the three operators approved by the Nevada Transportation Authority on August 20, 2026 to carry paying passengers under that permit. Waymo's own updates page lists all 15 under 'Serving Riders In' (checked November 9, 2026). Service areas: on October 27, 2026 Waymo said it would add nearly 250 square miles across five metros over the following week: in Los Angeles down the coast to the South Bay, adding Torrance; in Nashville further south, including the zoo; in Orlando nearly doubling its coverage area in the east, with more service downtown; in San Diego north to La Jolla; and in the San Francisco Bay Area more of the south, including a BART connection at Berryessa Station (Waymo, October 27, 2026). Airport: Waymo says it received authorization to operate fully autonomously at Harry Reid International Airport (announced August 25-26, 2026) and will begin with employee airport trips during a testing phase; public airport service is not part of the September 14 launch, and under the Authority's approval it additionally requires authorization from the Clark County Department of Aviation. On October 21, 2026 Waymo opened Harry Reid International Airport to riders who already have Las Vegas access, with pickups and drop-offs in dedicated autonomous-vehicle zones on the Ground Zero Level at Terminals 1 and 3, and said it will add more riders before opening airport trips to everyone; Clark County's Director of Aviation is quoted welcoming the service in Waymo's announcement (Waymo, October 21, 2026; News 3 Las Vegas, the same day). San Antonio: service there was paused after severe flooding in April 2026 and resumed on September 17, 2026, including trips to and from San Antonio International Airport, after software changes to detect standing water and new restrictions keeping the robotaxis out of areas at elevated flood risk. San Antonio stayed on Waymo's 'Serving Riders In' list throughout the pause. Waymo's published 'Up Next' list names Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, London, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle, St. Louis, Tokyo and Washington DC: 15 US cities plus London and Tokyo (Waymo's own site, checked November 9, 2026). These are announced intentions, not services, so none should be read as a launch date. Beyond that list, Waymo said on September 14, 2026 that it intends to serve its first public riders in Tokyo in 2027 with Nihon Kotsu and the GO app, subject to national and local approval; on September 17, 2026 that it plans a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Singapore in 2028 with the Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority, after a 2027 readiness phase; and on September 15, 2026 it named London and Munich as its initial European deployment plans in an insurance partnership with Allianz Partners. None of those carries riders today. In October 2026 Waymo announced two more plans outside the US: Toronto, its first Canadian market, where vehicles start with manual driving and testing with trained specialists behind the wheel and Waymo's stated goal is first riders in 2028, with Element Fleet Management running the fleet (Waymo, October 16, 2026; blogTO); and the Region of Madrid, where it says Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will begin with manual driving and validation and it aims to welcome riders in 2027 (Waymo, October 20, 2026; no independent report found the same day). Neither city has been added to Waymo's 'Up Next' list (checked November 9, 2026), and neither carries riders. On October 30, 2026 Toyota and Waymo said they will begin testing and validating an autonomous Toyota bZ4X fleet in Japan in 2027, built at Toyota's Takaoka plant, with deployment to the United Kingdom and other Waymo markets planned for the following years (Waymo, October 30, 2026): a plan, not a service. California permit: on August 14, 2026 the CPUC approved Waymo's Advice Letter 4/4-A, an updated passenger safety plan covering an expanded deployment territory and the Ojai vehicle platform. Scale provenance: the fleet figure is Waymo's own, reported at more than 4,000 vehicles on September 1, 2026, of which roughly 300 are the 6th-gen Ojai and the rest predominantly Jaguar I-PACE; multiple outlets covering the same disclosure agree on both numbers. Weekly paid rides are still reported at more than 500,000 (no newer figure had been published as of November 9, 2026, and Sundar Pichai's prepared remarks on Alphabet's Q3 2026 earnings call, on October 28, 2026, gave none), against Waymo's stated goal of 1 million weekly rides by the end of 2026. Waymo reaffirmed its 20+ cities and 1M weekly trips goals, and has passed 20M+ lifetime paid trips. Operational status: Waymo paused public freeway rides in late May 2026 (surface-street service was unaffected throughout) and began restoring them on July 29, 2026 after software updates addressing freeway construction zones: enhanced scene recognition plus routing changes, remedying recall 26E035. The restoration is phased rather than instant: Phoenix went first on July 29, which also restored freeway routing to Sky Harbor, and Waymo said Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area would follow within days. Cities beyond Phoenix remain announced rather than independently confirmed live: no dated report found as of September 24, 2026 confirms that freeway service resumed in Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area. The one later, dated freeway data point is Austin: in the week of September 22, 2026, after months of testing, Waymo began offering freeway trips on select rides booked through Uber there, on MoPac, I-35, US 183 and US 290, with more riders to follow. Regulatory: NHTSA's July 31, 2026 deadline for AV first-responder remediation plans has passed; no operator's submission has been made public and NHTSA has announced no outcome (see the US regulation section). Rider experience: on July 29, 2026 Waymo added Google's Gemini assistant and a redesigned adaptive three-screen interface (including a 'Calm Mode') to the Ojai. Waymo states Gemini handles cabin controls, trip information and general questions only, does not control vehicle movement or routing, and has no access to real-time driving data. Waymo said on May 28, 2026 that select riders in San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles would be offered free rides in its 6th-gen Zeekr-built vehicle, the Ojai, over the following weeks; the Hyundai IONIQ 5 is still ramping toward fleet service (Arizona production expected late 2026). Launched fully autonomous public rides in Nashville, TN on April 7, 2026 in the Waymo app, by invitation; Nashville has been open to everyone since June 25, 2026, and to teen accounts linked to a parent or guardian account since September 22, 2026. Since September 9, 2026, Nashville riders can also be matched with a Waymo on the Lyft app (Lyft's announcement), the first metro where Waymo is bookable in two apps. Uber has said Waymo told it that it plans to launch its own app in Austin and Atlanta, where Waymo is Uber-only today, in January 2028; Waymo's fleet there stays on Uber through at least May 2028. Added a paid 'Waymo Premier' membership ($29.99/mo, invite-only) on June 11, 2026. Airports, per Waymo's Help Center (checked November 9, 2026): Phoenix Sky Harbor, San Antonio International and San José Mineta; Nashville International (since October 13, 2026) and Las Vegas Harry Reid (since October 21, 2026), both for a limited number of riders at first; and San Francisco International (SFO), for a limited number of riders, with pickups and drop-offs at the Rental Car Center and the Grand Hyatt at SFO. Waymo opened SFO access on January 29, 2026. The San Francisco Chronicle reported on July 22, 2026 that access was effectively paused; Waymo's Help Center listed the same SFO pickups for limited riders on July 30, 2026, after that report (Internet Archive copy), and still does. At Miami International, rides are for Waymo employees only, not the public. Funding and going international: raised ~$16B in equity (Feb 2026), with London named as its first overseas market and testing underway in Tokyo, and on October 8, 2026 closed a $5 billion term loan, its first debt financing (Waymo, October 8, 2026). Pauses operations during heavy rain or flooding in some metros until conditions clear.

Architecturally distinct from Waymo: Tesla deploys the same vision-only neural network used in consumer FSD inside a geofence, rather than relying on HD-mapped cities and lidar. Florida rollout (July 2026): Tesla offered unsupervised (no one aboard) rides from day one in Miami on July 3 (its first market outside Texas and California, and the first time it skipped the monitor-only phase in a new city), then added Orlando and Tampa on July 21, both also with unsupervised rides from day one and hailable through the public Robotaxi app. As in Austin, those unsupervised cars run alongside monitored ones; Tesla lists all three as 'Ramping Unsupervised' and does not disclose the split. Tesla has not published the size of its Florida service areas, and community measurements of the geofences vary. In Orlando the zone centers on the Semoran Boulevard and Lee Vista Boulevard corridor near Orlando International Airport, with no pickups or drop-offs at the airport terminals, downtown or the theme parks; in Tampa it covers West Tampa and Tampa Heights. Through mid-2026 the Texas footprint was large but thin: state filings listed 42 authorized vehicles on June 2, 2026 (electrive), while independent trackers counting cars actively running reported materially fewer. The Texas registry has grown sharply since (see Fleet above). The SF Bay Area service (running since 2025) requires a safety driver, because California still classifies it as a limousine offering rather than a robotaxi and has an open state action over 'Full Self-Driving' marketing. Tesla's own Q2 2026 disclosure makes that concrete: it lists the SF Bay Area status as 'Safety Driver' and cites California charter-party carrier permit #TCP0046782-A, a limousine/chauffeured-transport authorization, not an autonomous-vehicle deployment permit, which is exactly why a human sits behind the wheel there. Musk has tied aggressive scaling to FSD v15 (a model rewrite growing from ~1B to ~10B parameters), pointing to late 2026 / early 2027. On the Q2 2026 earnings call (call-sourced; this detail is not in the written deck) Tesla said the robotaxi fleet is already running early v15 builds, with roughly 40% of 7 planned improvement tracks merged. That applies to the geofenced robotaxi fleet, not to consumer cars. On the Q3 2026 earnings call (October 21, 2026) Elluswamy said the first customer-owned cars could join the Robotaxi fleet with unsupervised FSD 'somewhere around Q2 next year', inside Tesla's geofences and fleet management and through the v15 release, which has not shipped to customers. Tesla's Q2 2026 disclosure also states it expanded the unsupervised operating area in Austin during the quarter, and publishes a per-metro status table listing Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa as 'Ramping Unsupervised' and the SF Bay Area as 'Safety Driver'. Next markets, now Tesla-confirmed rather than rumored: that same table lists Phoenix, AZ and Las Vegas, NV as 'Preparations Underway' (Tesla's own language), though it gives no launch date for either, so none should be inferred. Since October 21, 2026 Tesla's Robotaxi page and its new Robotaxi Safety Report page list four metros as 'Coming soon': Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Antonio and Jacksonville, Florida, the last two named by Tesla for the first time, again with no dates (reported by Not a Tesla App and Tesla North the same day). San Antonio opened on November 9, 2026, leaving Las Vegas, Phoenix and Jacksonville on that list. Supporting groundwork already on the record: on June 5, 2026 Tesla filed for a Nevada Autonomous Vehicle Network Company permit covering Las Vegas (including Harry Reid and Henderson airports) and allowing up to 5,000 vehicles in year one. The Nevada Transportation Authority first granted that application on an interim basis on July 27, 2026 (AVNC Permit 002, docket 26-05015), capped at ten fully autonomous vehicles inside a geofence limited to the Las Vegas Strip corridor, barred from Nevada roads posted above 45 mph, and prohibited from pickups at or within a quarter-mile of Harry Reid International Airport absent the airport operator's authorization. That cap was superseded 24 days later. On August 20, 2026 the Authority voted unanimously to approve full Autonomous Vehicle Network Company applications for three operators at once: Tesla Robotaxi, LLC (up to 5,000 fully autonomous vehicles in the permit's first 12 months), Waymo LLC (1,000) and Aviari Services, LLC, an Uber subsidiary (1,000), each authorized to carry paying passengers in fully autonomous vehicles across Clark County, subject to the Authority-approved operational design domain. Conditions apply to all three equally: vehicle inspection documentation, insurance, rates filed with the Authority before service, customer-facing app submitted for review, accessibility and nondiscrimination compliance, crash and incident reporting under NRS 706B.260, a 24-hour emergency contact for first responders, and prior Authority approval for any change to the operational design domain. The approved geographic area includes Harry Reid International Airport, but no operator may service the airport without separate authorization from the Clark County Department of Aviation. Operations must commence within 120 days of permit issuance, and no company may carry passengers until every requirement is satisfied. Tesla representatives told the Authority they do not intend to field 5,000 vehicles immediately. In Arizona it has filed a 'Robotaxi First Responder Interaction Plan' outlining a proposed Phoenix-metro service footprint, and trade-press reports put roughly 60 robotaxi-spec Model Ys staged in the Phoenix area. Neither metro is carrying public riders yet.

CYBERCAB IN SERVICE (September 2026): Tesla held an invite-only Cybercab launch event in Austin on September 3, 2026, and the two-seat, controls-free Cybercab entered the public Robotaxi fleet in a limited area of Austin on September 4 at 5:00 p.m. CT. Riders cannot request one specifically (it is mixed into ordinary dispatch), and it runs in Austin only. Texas state registration records showed 45 Cybercabs and 375 Model Ys, 420 vehicles in total, as of September 2, 2026; a September 21 snapshot from one registry tracker, not confirmed by Tesla, listed 67 Cybercabs and 409 Model Ys, 476 in total. At the launch event Tesla also said the Robotaxi fleet had passed 1 million cumulative unsupervised miles. As of October 25, 2026 no new Tesla Robotaxi city had opened since the July Florida launches; Fort Worth and San Antonio followed in November (below).

Q3 2026 RESULTS (October 21, 2026): Tesla's Q3 2026 Update says it began Robotaxi rides in Cybercabs on September 3 in Austin, reached nearly two million cumulative unsupervised miles by the end of September, and was then running Austin service from 6 a.m. to midnight (Not a Tesla App reported the midnight close on October 17); Tesla moved the close to 2 a.m. on October 29 (below). Unlike the Q2 Update it carries no per-metro status table, so the Q2 table remains Tesla's latest written per-metro statement. On the call, Elluswamy said Cybercab rides will launch in Dallas 'next month' (November 2026), and CFO Vaibhav Taneja said Tesla plans Cybercab service in some other cities before the end of 2026. Lars Moravy said Tesla is trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of 2026, while every Cybercab built so far has gone to Tesla's own fleet, and Musk said the vast majority will be Tesla-owned and run as transport as a service (Motley Fool transcript; Not a Tesla App, October 22, 2026). Those are stated intentions, not launches. Neither the Q3 Update nor the call transcript mentions the Bay Area service.

NEW CITIES AND SERVICE CHANGES (October 26 to November 9, 2026): Tesla opened Robotaxi rides in Fort Worth, Texas on November 2, 2026 from 6 a.m., a city it had not named on any coming-soon list, in a launch area centered on downtown Fort Worth that is separate from its Dallas zone, and in San Antonio on November 9, 2026 from 5 a.m. (Tesla's Robotaxi account on X, the night before each launch; Not a Tesla App, Tesla North and, for San Antonio, KSAT). Tesla's Robotaxi page and support FAQ now list Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Orlando, San Antonio and Tampa as available and Las Vegas, Phoenix and Jacksonville as coming soon (checked November 9, 2026). Tesla's launch posts do not say whether cars in either new city carry a safety monitor: Not a Tesla App and Tesla Oracle describe both as unsupervised, while Tesla North notes that the posts do not say. Both opened with Model Y vehicles, and Tesla's Cybercab FAQ still lists Cybercab rides only in limited areas of Austin (checked November 9, 2026), so the Dallas Cybercab launch Tesla described for November had not begun by then. Tesla also announced a bigger Houston service area on October 26, 2026 and a bigger Austin service area on November 9, 2026, and on October 29, 2026 posted that 'Operating hours are now 6am - 2am', without naming cities (its support FAQ says hours vary by area; Not a Tesla App reported the 2 a.m. close for Austin). Tesla published no size for any of these areas, and outlets' measurements of its launch maps differ, so none is stated here.

FEDERAL CERTIFICATION REVIEW: NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation opened Audit Query AQ26002 on September 3, 2026, covering an estimated population of 1,000 Cybercab vehicles. The stated scope is the process and technical data on which Tesla relied when certifying the Cybercab, including the extent to which that certification depended on determinations that certain Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards are inapplicable to the vehicle. The context worth understanding is the pathway choice, not a defect claim: a vehicle with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors can reach the road either through an NHTSA exemption (the route Zoox took on July 30, 2026, which caps a manufacturer at 2,500 vehicles a year) or by self-certifying FMVSS compliance, which is the route Tesla took and which carries no such cap. An Audit Query is an inquiry into that certification record. It is not a finding of defect, not a recall, and it has not restricted Cybercab operation. NHTSA escalated on September 10, 2026 with a Special Order under 49 U.S.C. 30166(g), signed by Chief Counsel Peter Simshauser, which legally requires Tesla to answer 21 numbered requests about how it certified the Cybercab (including which safety standards it applied and whether temporarily attached human driver controls formed part of that basis) in a response signed under oath by a responsible officer, originally due September 30, 2026. Tesla asked on September 18 for eight more weeks, to November 20; NHTSA granted 30 days on September 22, so the response was due October 30, 2026 (NHTSA memo to file, September 29, 2026). Tesla responded that day. NHTSA's public file for the inquiry holds Tesla's response letter dated October 30, 2026, whose public version says the entire file is confidential business information, and an NHTSA notice of the same date that the remaining documents answering Question 8 (how Tesla determined that the Cybercab complies with each standard) carry a confidentiality request from Tesla covering each document in full (Tesla North reported the filing on November 3, 2026). NHTSA has not said publicly whether it will grant those requests. (NHTSA's order dates the start of commercial Cybercab service to September 3, 2026, the day of the launch event; press and rider reports put the first public dispatch at 5 p.m. CT on September 4.) A Special Order compels answers; it is still not a finding of noncompliance. NHTSA's investigation record, checked November 9, 2026, still lists the audit query as open, with the same six documents and no closing document, and the order has not restricted Cybercab operation: Tesla's Cybercab FAQ still lists Cybercab rides in Austin (checked November 9, 2026).

CALIFORNIA PERMIT STATUS: Tesla Robotaxi LLC appears on the California DMV's list of holders of an Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit (with a driver), per the list dated October 23, 2026. It does not appear on the DMV's driverless-testing or deployment lists (both dated November 5, 2026). That is the first DMV rung and it does not change what Tesla may offer the public in California: the Bay Area passenger service still runs under the charter-party carrier permit cited above, with a safety driver in the seat.

Zoox now charges for rides. Because its vehicle has no steering wheel or pedals, Zoox needed an NHTSA exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards before it could operate commercially, and NHTSA granted one on July 30, 2026, covering up to 2,500 vehicles annually for two years, waiving eight FMVSS (including manual driving controls, mirrors, windshield defrosting and light-vehicle braking systems) and carrying what NHTSA calls an 'enhanced, adaptable oversight structure.' NHTSA describes it as the first commercial exemption of its kind for a purpose-built robotaxi, which is what makes the paid launch a US first for a controls-free vehicle. On August 5, 2026 Zoox announced that paid service in Las Vegas starts Monday, August 10, 2026, its first commercial market after roughly a year of free public rides. How the fare works, per Zoox: a base fare plus distance and time from pickup to drop-off, calculated on the best available route at the moment of booking and shown in full before the rider confirms; if the vehicle then takes a different or longer route, the rider still pays the quoted price. Destination fees apply on top for certain high-traffic locations: Harry Reid International Airport, Sphere and T-Mobile Arena. Zoox declined to publish a base fare and would only say it aims to be competitive with the 'comfort' tier of ride-hailing (the tier above UberX); no verified dollar figure or percentage exists yet, so none is stated here. Airport: on September 3, 2026 Zoox began carrying riders to and from Harry Reid International Airport, the first fully driverless robotaxi service at the airport (approved by the Clark County Department of Aviation and Nevada authorities), with pickups and drop-offs at Terminal 1 and Terminal 3, so the airport destination fee now applies. Paid service is Las Vegas only for now: Zoox needs state and local approvals to charge fares anywhere else. In California the DMV lists Zoox among its deployment permit holders as of November 5, 2026, with deployment areas in northeastern San Francisco, parts of West Los Angeles, Hayward and Foster City, on roads posted up to 45 mph at all hours; the CPUC, whose deployment permit paid passenger service also needs, still lists only pilot permits for Zoox (both checked November 9, 2026), so neither the federal exemption nor the DMV permit opens that market on its own. In March 2026 Zoox doubled its Las Vegas destinations, adding Sphere, T-Mobile Arena and the Las Vegas Convention Center. Nevada: Zoox's Nevada Transportation Authority permit (AVNC 001, Sub 5, dated August 28, 2026) limited it to 100 fully autonomous vehicles in the 12 months following its original permit of September 25, 2025, so that limit ran to September 25, 2026. The permit states no limit for the period after that, and it is still the Zoox permit the Authority posts (checked November 7, 2026), so no newer limit has been published; TechCrunch reported on September 17, 2026 that an Authority official and a Zoox spokesperson confirmed the limit would end on September 25. Operations stay confined to the design domain the Authority approved on June 4, 2026. San Francisco is open to the general public, but gated and free. Anyone can download the Zoox app and join the waitlist; Zoox invites riders off it into its "Zoox Explorers" early-rider program, which replaced employee-only access on November 18, 2025. Fares there are not merely unannounced; they are not permitted: the CPUC lists Zoox (TCP 38380) with Drivered Pilot and Driverless Pilot permits only and no Deployment permit, and CPUC rules bar monetary compensation for rides under the pilot programs; a California DMV deployment permit, which Zoox holds on the DMV's November 5, 2026 list, does not change that on its own. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on August 5, 2026 that Zoox has no plan to begin paid service in San Francisco. Its SF service area quadrupled in March 2026, focused on the eastern half of the city (SoMa, Mission and Design District at launch). Austin is carrying riders but is likewise limited to Zoox employees and their family and friends, with the 'Zoox Explorers' early-rider program planned later in the year. It is not a public market. In Miami, since April 23, 2026, rides are limited to Zoox employees and their families and friends, in the Edgewater and Beverly Terrace neighborhoods; Zoox says a waitlist for Zoox Explorers will open there soon. Unveiled a redesigned production robotaxi on June 24-25, 2026 ahead of series production; its Hayward, CA factory is scaling toward up to 100 vehicles/week. Booking is through the Zoox app; the previously stated summer 2026 arrival on the Uber app has slipped, with Zoox now saying rides become bookable on Uber later this year. Footprint expansion (September 1, 2026): Zoox announced it is adding Houston, TX and San Diego, CA, taking its US footprint to twelve locations. Both start with retrofitted test vehicles and human safety supervisors doing manual mapping before autonomous testing, and Zoox gave no timeline for passenger service in either. Zoox described Houston as its 'most sprawling market to date', citing service-road networks, unusual merging scenarios, severe heat, heavy rain and urban flooding. None of this changes where Zoox carries riders: that is still Las Vegas (paid), San Francisco (free, waitlist) and Austin (employees plus family and friends). On November 5, 2026 Zoox announced a multi-year partnership with the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix and said it plans to offer rides to and from the Grand Prix Plaza, with a dedicated pickup and drop-off zone, beginning in 2027 (Zoox). As of November 9, 2026, Zoox had announced no Uber-app launch, no public (Zoox Explorers) access in Austin or Miami and no paid service outside Las Vegas, and the CPUC's deployment advice-letter register listed no Zoox filing. Its Where to Ride page lists Las Vegas and San Francisco as live and Austin and Miami as arriving; Uber's Las Vegas page names only Motional, so Zoox is not yet on the Uber app there; and Zoox's Las Vegas page gives service hours of 6 a.m. to 1 a.m.

As of March 13, 2026, Motional's IONIQ 5 is available through the Uber app across five Las Vegas zones (Resorts World, Encore, Westgate, Town Square, Downtown) with a safety monitor onboard: a live supervised public pilot, the 'final proving ground' before removing the monitor for the targeted end-of-2026 driverless launch. Aptiv exited the joint venture in 2025; Hyundai is the sole owner and added ~$1B in the reboot (which included deep layoffs and an AI-first perception stack). As of November 9, 2026 Motional had announced no driverless transition, no safety-monitor removal and no change to the end-of-2026 target; its most recent Las Vegas announcement is still the March 2026 Uber integration, and it has not begun carrying riders under Uber subsidiary Aviari's Nevada permit. Uber's Las Vegas page describes the same service: request UberX, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric and you may be matched with a Motional car, up to four riders.

Peachtree Corners, Georgia launched in February 2025 as May Mobility's first commercial driver-out service, with Curiosity Lab, T-Mobile and the City of Peachtree Corners. As of September 2026, May Mobility's own locations page lists that service under Previous Deployments rather than Active Deployments, its underlying page data flags it as inactive, and its detail page shows operating hours as N/A. Under this page's status definitions, Active requires a driverless service open to the public in at least one market, so May Mobility reads Limited.

What is NOT established: May Mobility has announced no end date and issued no statement, and we found no reporting that the Peachtree Corners service has been discontinued. The company's own site is internally inconsistent: the Peachtree Corners detail page still carries present-tense marketing copy describing free weekday rides from 9:30am to 3pm, while the same site classifies the deployment as inactive. We are reporting the classification, which is verifiable, and not asserting a shutdown, which is not.

What remains: three active US deployments (Atlanta GA via Lyft, Grand Rapids MN and Eden Prairie MN), all with an onboard operator, which is what Limited describes. In May 2026 May Mobility signed a framework deal with ECARX worth roughly $750M to supply autonomy-enabled vehicles; that is a supply agreement, and the deployed US footprint has contracted rather than grown over 2026, which is worth weighing against the headline number.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2026: May Mobility announced it will go public on Nasdaq (ticker MAY) by merging with ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp., at a stated pro forma enterprise value of about $1.4 billion, with closing expected by year-end. The operational content of that announcement is what matters here, and it is consistent with this row: the company says it currently operates commercially in three US locations (with Lyft in Atlanta, plus autonomous ride services in Eden Prairie and Grand Rapids, Minnesota) and that it has completed more than 550,000 commercial autonomous rides across 1.1 million miles in the US and Japan, including three driver-out deployments to date. That driver-out count is historical and cumulative; it does not identify a current driver-out service, and the locations page, as of November 9, 2026, still lists exactly three Active Deployments, without Peachtree Corners, so the Limited label stands. Stated plans, not services: a commercial launch with Uber in Arlington, Texas targeted for Q4 2026 or Q1 2027 (Uber's own Arlington page, checked November 9, 2026, says autonomous Uber rides are not yet available there, and May Mobility lists Arlington only under Previous Deployments), and a six-month on-demand pilot with NTT Mobility in Nagoya, Japan that began in September 2026.

Began commercial service on December 3, 2025 in a roughly 9-square-mile zone (Downtown, Uptown, Turtle Creek, Deep Ellum) using a Hyundai IONIQ 5 fleet dispatched through Uber. Rides match normal UberX/Comfort pricing, with no premium, and riders who opt in may be matched with an Avride car when they request one of those ride types. Avride announced its 100,000th autonomous ride on Uber on August 14, 2026 and reports a fleet of over 200 vehicles. On September 2, 2026 Avride said its Dallas service area had more than tripled since launch, to 31 square miles covering much of Central Dallas north of the Trinity River (company-stated; Uber's page describes the same area without a size, and we found no independent report of the figure). On October 16, 2026 it said it had completed more than 100,000 autonomous passenger rides and driven more than 2 million autonomous miles, up from more than 1.3 million announced in August. Driver-out remains planned rather than delivered: as of November 9, 2026 Uber's Dallas page still says an onboard specialist sits behind the wheel, Dallas is still the only public market, and Avride has announced no driver-out date, which is why this row reads Limited rather than Active.

Nuro pivoted from autonomous goods delivery to licensing its 'Nuro Driver' stack; this Uber + Lucid partnership puts it into premium passenger robotaxi. Autonomous on-road testing began December 2025, and Bay Area public-road testing was announced April 13, 2026. As of August 2026 the service is still pre-public: select Uber employees can hail a Lucid Gravity robotaxi through the Uber app, with a human safety operator behind the wheel. Nuro reports roughly 100 Lucid Gravity SUVs in its engineering fleet, testing 24/7 in both the SF Bay Area and Houston. Public launch is targeted for the SF Bay Area in late 2026; Houston was named the second market in June 2026 with service targeted for mid-2027, supported by a 50,000 sq ft Uber depot due to be operational by early 2027. No public riders yet, which is why this reads Preparing. California permit position, per the DMV's own lists (as checked November 9, 2026; the drivered testing list is dated October 23, 2026 and the driverless-testing and deployment lists November 5, 2026): Nuro holds a California DMV DRIVERLESS testing permit (Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, up to 45 mph, listing the Lucid Gravity) as well as a drivered testing permit. It does hold a DMV deployment permit, but that permit dates from December 23, 2020 and was issued for a light-duty driverless goods-delivery service on surface streets in parts of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties (vehicles capped at 25 mph on roads posted 35 mph or lower). It is not a passenger robotaxi authorization, and reporting on the Lucid Gravity program says Nuro still needs a DMV deployment permit for that service. Reporting also indicates it has not yet filed for the CPUC driverless ride-hail authority that paid public service would additionally require; the CPUC's deployment advice-letter register lists no Nuro filing. Two approvals therefore still stand between the current employee testing and a public Bay Area launch, which is worth weighing against the late-2026 target. As of November 9, 2026: still employee riders with a safety operator aboard, still roughly 100 Lucid Gravity SUVs, still Houston targeted for mid-2027, no Nuro announcement since August 2026 about public service, and no Nuro filing in the CPUC register (last updated August 14, 2026).

Listed here for completeness because Mobileye's announcement puts it on both sides of the AV business, continuing to sell its stack to automakers and fleets while operating a competing service of its own. What is actually confirmed is limited: a vertically integrated robotaxi business, an initial fleet of roughly 100 vehicles in one major US city in 2027, and a stated ambition of about 17,000 vehicles within five years of launch. Mobileye has not named the launch city and says further commercial and operational detail will come at a US Capital Markets Day before the end of 2026. Nothing here is a live service. Treat it as an announced program, not a competitor you can ride today. Its Q3 2026 results release (October 29, 2026) said it is engaging with potential vendors for vehicle platform supply, self-driving-system installation and fleet logistics for that service, and named no launch city. As of November 9, 2026 Mobileye had not held or dated the Capital Markets Day, and no vehicles were carrying riders.