AI in Transportation: 28 real deployments

Launching Cybercab, a driverless two-passenger robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, for commercial operation in Austin

Deploying up to 1,000 autonomous robotaxis for commercial operation in Clark County, Nevada via Motional

Deploying up to 5,000 autonomous Cybercab robotaxis for commercial operation in Clark County, Nevada

Building an overseas autonomous robotaxi pipeline exceeding 4,000 vehicles across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including a 2,000-vehicle Europe deployment with Uber; targeting 3,500 domestic vehicles by year-end

Deploying more than 2,000 Level 4 autonomous robotaxis across four additional European cities plus Middle East markets, supplying the autonomous stack and operations

Operating paid driverless robotaxi service across 18 California counties including freeways, highways, rural roads and rail crossings day or night in rain, fog and hail

Reported: completed 20M+ trips with ~3,000 vehicles

operating a fleet of AI-powered autonomous robotaxis across multiple US cities

Reported: fleet grew from 700 to nearly 4,000 vehicles; sixth recall to date; 3,871-vehicle recall triggered by construction-zone incursions near Phoenix and Bay Area; additional incidents include a robotaxi swept into flooded Salado Creek in San Antonio and a San Francisco power-outage failure

Transport for London licensed Wayve's autonomous Ford Mustang Mach-Es for supervised robotaxi trials through Uber.

Reported: More than 100,000 Londoners registered interest; trial rides are scheduled to begin with a licensed human driver onboard.

Uber plans to deploy driverless vehicles across more than 15 cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Dubai and Munich.

Reported: Uber committed more than $10 billion over the coming years and targets 120,000 driverless vehicles.

Zoox is launching paid rides in its purpose-built, steering-wheel-free robotaxis in Las Vegas after two years of free testing.

Reported: Paid service starts August 10 under an NHTSA commercial exemption covering up to 2,500 vehicles.

Waymo opened its fully driverless robotaxi service to all Dallas residents after an invite-only launch.

Reported: Waymo says it served nearly 150,000 Dallas riders from the waitlist before opening access.

Baidu, Lyft and Freenow began supervised robotaxi testing in London's Brent borough using purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 vehicles.

Reported: Dozens of vehicles are planned for testing, with public service targeted for 2027 subject to approval.

Tesla launched fully unsupervised robotaxi rides in a 10-14 square mile geofenced zone of western Miami-Dade, its fifth market, with no human safety monitor in the front seat.

Reported: Unsupervised fleet has shrunk from a peak of ~25 vehicles to ~14 active cars as safety validation remains the limiting factor; Tesla targets a dozen US states by end of 2026.

Tesla operates a small robotaxi program, with 31 robotaxis active across all markets in the past seven days, of which only 14 run unsupervised.

Reported: No at-fault robotaxi crash in the latest NHTSA autonomous-vehicle data.

Mobileye will launch its own robotaxi service in an unnamed US city in 2027 with an initial fleet of 100 vehicles phased in through the year, scaling to about 17,000 robotaxis over the following five years.

Uber, Foxconn and VinFast are among the first announced deployers of NVIDIA's DRIVE Hyperion Level 4 robotaxi platform, with Uber deploying NVIDIA DRIVE-powered AVs in Munich later in 2026, Foxconn targeting a 2028 airport-to-city robotaxi service in Taiwan, and VinFast partnering with Autobrains for Southeast Asian Level 4 operations.

Waymo suspended robotaxi service in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, and Houston after multiple vehicles drove into flooded roads despite a late-April software recall covering all 3,791 vehicles.

Reported: Service paused in four cities; one robotaxi stuck in Atlanta floodwater for over an hour; company acknowledged it had not deployed a final fix when the recall was issued

Waymo filed a voluntary NHTSA recall covering 3,791 robotaxis across six cities after a vehicle drove into a flooded San Antonio road instead of stopping, deploying an OTA fix tightening weather restrictions and updating flood maps.

Reported: First major safety recall for Waymo's commercial fleet; interim patch pushed to all 3,791 units

Waymo expanded its robotaxi coverage to 1,400 square miles across 11 US cities.

Reported: doing a million rides a week

Japan Airlines started a two-year humanoid robot trial at Haneda airport covering baggage, cargo, and aircraft towing.

Waymo began autonomous driving in London with ~100 I-Pace vehicles across roughly 100 square miles, its first European pilot, with trained specialists behind the wheel pending UK regulatory sign-off.

planned driverless ride-hailing service launch in Munich, Germany by end of 2027, its first European Union market

Used automated systems to suspend and deactivate driver accounts without adequate human review from 2018 to 2022; current process now includes human review and driver appeals

Reported: fined €825 million ($966M) by the Netherlands' Data Protection Authority for violations spanning 2018 to 2022

Developed custom 5nm Ojai ASIC delivering over 1,000 TOPS to preprocess raw camera data from 13 high-fidelity cameras before it reaches the main autonomy stack on next-generation robotaxis

Participating in Operation Blue Skies, implementing Google AI contrail-prediction model outputs as altitude adjustments for approximately 10,000 flights per year through Shanwick oceanic airspace across two four-month operational trial periods

Handling booking, payments and customer support for Pony.ai Level 4 robotaxis across Europe and Middle East

Uber's AV Labs division is deploying 500 modified Hyundai Ioniq 5 EVs fitted with 14 cameras, 8 solid-state lidars, 9 radars and Nvidia Dual Drive Thor compute to capture a targeted two million miles per month of training data for its 30+ autonomous-vehicle technology partners, with 50 vehicles expected on roads by summer.

Uber rolled out Claude Code across its 5,000-engineer organization, with adoption accelerated by an internal leaderboard ranking teams by AI usage volume.

Reported: Claude Code adoption jumped from 32% to 84%; monthly API costs run $500-$2,000 per engineer; the entire 2026 AI tools budget was exhausted by April