Robotaxi tracker · Companies · Operator
Motional
Once a front-runner, now the clearest case of lost momentum: Motional still puts a safety operator in every Las Vegas car and has not announced a driver-out date, while two competitors launched driverless service in the same city during 2026.
Furthest stage: Paid, operator onboard United States Owner: Hyundai Motor Group
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Cities carrying passengers
Paid, pilot or invite-only rides, out of 1 tracked here.
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Cities on the tracker
1 as operator.
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Countries
United States.
Where Motional is live
Every city on the tracker that Motional 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.
- Paid, operator onboardAnyone can book and pay, but a trained operator rides along.
Boundaries from Natural Earth (public domain). Status is Motional's own stage in that city: a city can be driverless for a competitor and testing-only here.
City by city
Motional's stage in each city, furthest along first. Open a row for the launch date, the supervision level and the sources.
United States1 with passengers · 1 tracked
Las Vegas Nevada, United States
The most crowded robotaxi city in America: Zoox's first paid market, Waymo's newest, Motional's only, and a Tesla permit for up to 5,000 vehicles sitting unused.
Robotaxi
- MotionalSupervised2023Hyundai Ioniq 5s on Uber with a safety operator in every car; driver-out still targeted.
Sources: CNBC · Waymo One · TechCrunch · Every operator in Las Vegas
Motional in the news
No Motional entry in the timeline yet — it only carries launches, permits and decisions that moved the board.
The company
What Motional is, who owns it, and what it has actually deployed — the same record as the glossary entry on the tracker.
- Type
- Operator
- Headquarters
- United States
- Owner
- Hyundai Motor Group
- Founded
- 2020 (Hyundai–Aptiv JV)
- Approach
- Lidar-led L4
- Vehicles
- Hyundai Ioniq 5
- Scale
- Fleet undisclosed
- Where
- Las Vegas (supervised, via Uber)
- Rides sold through
- Uber