Robotaxi tracker · Companies · Demand platform
Lyft / FREENOW
Lyft's purchase of FREENOW gave it a European taxi network in 150+ cities, and it is using it exactly as expected: Baidu's first London road tests run under the FREENOW brand. The European AV market is being intermediated by two American apps.
Furthest stage: Driverless & paid United States / Germany Owner: Lyft (FREENOW acquired 2025)
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Cities carrying passengers
Paid, pilot or invite-only rides, out of 3 tracked here.
3
Cities on the tracker
3 sold in its app.
2
Countries
United States, United Kingdom.
Where Lyft / FREENOW is live
Every city on the tracker that Lyft / FREENOW touches — as operator, as the app the ride is sold in, or as the stack underneath. A dot marks a city, not a service area.
- Driverless & paidOpen to the public, fares charged, nobody in the driver's seat.
- Paid, operator onboardAnyone can book and pay, but a trained operator rides along.
- Road testingVehicles on public roads; mapping or staff-only rides, no public passengers.
Boundaries from Natural Earth (public domain). Status is Lyft / FREENOW's own stage in that city: a city can be driverless for a competitor and testing-only here.
City by city
Lyft / FREENOW's stage in each city, furthest along first. Open a row for the launch date, the supervision level and the sources.
United States2 with passengers · 2 tracked
Nashville Tennessee, United States
The first city where Waymo rides are sold through Lyft as well as its own app.
Robotaxi
- WaymoDriverlessJun 2026Waymo One app plus Lyft from 9 Sep 2026.
Sources: Waymo One · Every operator in Nashville
Atlanta Georgia, United States
Both national ride-hail apps sell an autonomous product here: Waymo via Uber, May Mobility via Lyft.
Robotaxi
- May MobilitySupervised2025Shared AV rides on the Lyft network with an onboard operator.
Sources: Waymo One · Robotaxi Report · Every operator in Atlanta
Europe0 with passengers · 1 tracked
London United Kingdom
Four operators in one city, and the only European market where a US, a British and two Chinese stack all compete. Every vehicle still carries a TfL-licensed driver, because the UK's driverless passenger permits only opened in May 2026.
Robotaxi
- Apollo GoTestingJul 2026RT6 fleet testing in Brent with FREENOW (Lyft); commercial service targeted 2027.
Sources: Uber IR · TechCrunch · electrive · Every operator in London
Lyft / FREENOW in the news
1 entry from the tracker's timeline, most recent first.
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Baidu's Apollo Go starts London road tests
RT6 vehicles run supervised in the borough of Brent with FREENOW by Lyft, targeting commercial service in 2027. electrive
The company
What Lyft / FREENOW is, who owns it, and what it has actually deployed — the same record as the glossary entry on the tracker.
- Type
- Demand platform
- Headquarters
- United States / Germany
- Owner
- Lyft (FREENOW acquired 2025)
- Founded
- 2012
- Approach
- None — aggregates third-party AV fleets
- Vehicles
- Partner fleets
- Where
- Waymo in Nashville; May Mobility in Atlanta; Apollo Go testing in London via FREENOW
- Operators in this app
- May Mobility Waymo Apollo Go (Baidu)