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The Lot · Driveway · Sept 2026

DRIVEWAY

The unsupervised car. Tesla wants you to own one. Waymo wants you to hail one. China already bills the ride.

Hail today
Waymo

Fully driverless paid service in 14 U.S. metros.

Own later
Cybercab

Purpose-built Tesla. Production talk. Certification still an open file.

Watch
Zoox · China

Amazon’s box in Vegas. Apollo Go and Pony on volume overseas.

U.S. · mixed

Tesla Cybercab / Robotaxi

No wheel. No pedals on the Cybercab. Paid rides in several U.S. metros with mixed supervision on the Model Y fleet. NHTSA still asking Cybercab FMVSS questions as of Sept 2026. The household purchase pitch: own the car, or hail it.
tesla.com/cybercab
U.S. · driverless paid

Waymo

Largest U.S. driverless paid service. Jaguar I-Pace plus the Zeekr-built Ojai van. 14 metros by early September 2026. 271 million rider-only miles through June. This is the one you can hail today in Phoenix, the Bay, L.A., Austin, Atlanta and the rest of that list.
waymo.com
U.S. · paid in Vegas

Zoox (Amazon)

Purpose-built box. No wheel. Paid rides in Las Vegas. Amazon’s own design, not a Jaguar with a stack bolted on.
zoox.com
China + Asia · paid

Baidu Apollo Go

Most cities on Earth. 23 million-plus cumulative public rides. 28-city footprint. Unit economics they say already work in the biggest China city.
apollo.auto
China + Europe tests

Pony.ai

Driverless in China’s tier-1 cities. Fleet toward 3,500 by end of 2026. Zagreb tests with Verne. Uber door into Europe.
pony.ai
Gulf + global

WeRide

Abu Dhabi and Dubai paid service. 1,800-plus robotaxis inside a larger L4 mix. 13 countries on the map.
weride.ai
U.S. testing

Avride

Texas testing next to the Tesla and Waymo mix. Watch Austin and Dallas.
avride.ai
U.S. shuttles

May Mobility

Shuttle-first. Named U.S. deployments. Not a two-seat Cybercab clone.
maymobility.com