Here's where you can get a robotaxi in the US, and the cities they are coming to next

Robotaxis are hitting the road all across the US. Waymo, Tesla, and Uber are racing to roll out driverless vehicles in dozens of cities. Here's where you can hail a robotaxi, and everywhere they are coming next. Buckle up: the robotaxi race is heating up. After years of missed targets and false starts, driverless taxis finally hit the road in a big way in 2025. There are now seven cities in the US where you can hail a robotaxi, although some services still require a human safety driver. Waymo, Tesla, and Uber all launched robotaxis in new markets this year - and they have more planned for 2026. Google-backed Waymo led the way, stating in a December 10 blog that it had served more than 14 million trips in 2025 so far, more than triple the total from last year. The Google-backed company also expanded to Austin and Atlanta, started operating on freeways , and announced plans for its first overseas expansion in London. Uber, which abandoned its own in-house robotaxi unit in 2020, has also gone all in on robotaxis. The ride-hailing company has formed a series of partnerships with startups to introduce robotaxis across the US and abroad. Its CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, described driverless taxis as a "trillion-dollar-plus" opportunity in a December interview with Bloomberg. Tesla, meanwhile, launched its own robotaxi service in Austin in June. CEO Elon Musk has said that autonomous vehicles will help turn Tesla into the world's most valuable company, and the automaker is going on a hiring spree and testing robotaxis without a driver in Austin as it scrambles to meet the billionaire's ambitious deadlines . With the robotaxi rollout ramping up, here's where you can take a ride in a driverless car in the US. Where can you get a robotaxi now? San Francisco is the birthplace of the US robotaxi industry, and the city remains the best option for taking a spin in a driverless taxi. Waymo has offered paid rides to the public, via the Waymo One app, in the city since mid-2024 . Amazon-backed Zoox also launched public access to its toaster-shaped, steering wheel-less robotaxis in November, but you need to sign up for a waitlist on the Zoox app to get a chance to ride. Tesla also launched a ride-hailing service in San Francisco in July, but with a big caveat. The vehicles are not technically classified as robotaxis, as they use Tesla's commercially available Full-Self Driving (supervised) technology and are monitored by a safety driver. Unlike Waymo and Zoox, Tesla does not have the required permits to operate a driverless ride-hailing service in California, which has some of the country's strictest robotaxi regulations. Outside Silicon Valley, the number of cities with driverless cars on the road is growing rapidly. Waymo's vehicles are also available in Los Angeles and Phoenix via the Waymo One app, and on Uber in Atlanta and Austin, thanks to its partnership with the ride-hailer. In Austin, Waymo is squaring off against Tesla's robotaxi...

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