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Zoox

The purist's bet: rather than retrofit a car, Zoox built a vehicle with no driver's seat at all, which forced it through a bespoke federal approval route. It won the first NHTSA commercial exemption for a purpose-built robotaxi in July 2026 and started charging fares in Las Vegas three weeks later. Scale is still small, but no competitor has a cleaner answer to what a car without a driver should look like.

Furthest stage: Driverless & paid United States Owner: Amazon

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Cities carrying passengers

Paid, pilot or invite-only rides, out of 6 tracked here.

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Cities on the tracker

6 as operator.

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Countries

United States.

Where Zoox is live

Every city on the tracker that Zoox 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.
  • Pilot — invite or freeReal passengers, but gated by waitlist, invitation, or no fare.
  • Road testingVehicles on public roads; mapping or staff-only rides, no public passengers.
  • AnnouncedCommitted city with a date or a permit, not yet driving passengers.
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United States — 6 cities where Zoox appears, coloured by Zoox's own stage in each, not the city's.

Boundaries from Natural Earth (public domain). Status is Zoox's own stage in that city: a city can be driverless for a competitor and testing-only here.

City by city

Zoox'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 · 6 tracked

Las Vegas Nevada, United States Driverless & paid Operator

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

  • ZooxDriverlessAug 2026First commercial launch of a purpose-built robotaxi with no controls; free public rides from Sep 2025, fares from 10 Aug 2026.

Sources: CNBC · Waymo One · TechCrunch · Every operator in Las Vegas

San Francisco Bay Area · California, United States Pilot — invite or free Operator

The densest competitive market on earth: three driverless fleets and a fourth in testing. California's rules are also why Tesla alone must keep a human behind the wheel here.

Robotaxi

  • ZooxPilotNov 2025Purpose-built robotaxi, free rides via waitlist; service area quadrupled in spring 2026.

Sources: Waymo One · TechCrunch · Every operator in San Francisco

Austin Texas, United States Road testing Operator

Where Tesla's robotaxi programme started, and the only city where its purpose-built Cybercab carries paying passengers. Waymo sells the same city through the Uber app.

Robotaxi

  • ZooxTestingMar 2026Employee rides ahead of a public launch.

Sources: Wikipedia — Tesla Robotaxi · TechCrunch · Every operator in Austin

Miami Florida, United States Road testing Operator

Florida's permissive AV statute made it the fastest multi-operator ramp in the country — Tesla launched here unsupervised from day one.

Robotaxi

  • ZooxTestingApr 2026Employee rides.

Sources: Wikipedia — Tesla Robotaxi · CNBC · Every operator in Miami

Houston Texas, United States Announced Operator

Nuro's chosen first commercial market, targeted for 2027 with Lucid Gravity vehicles.

Robotaxi

  • ZooxAnnouncedannouncedNamed as an expansion market, no timeline.

Sources: Waymo One · Every operator in Houston

San Diego California, United States Announced Operator

California's third Waymo market; Zoox is testing here too.

Robotaxi

  • ZooxAnnouncedannouncedTesting announced, no service date.

Sources: Waymo One · Waymo · Every operator in San Diego

Zoox in the news

1 entry from the tracker's timeline, most recent first.

  1. Zoox starts charging fares in Las Vegas

    The first commercial service anywhere by a purpose-built robotaxi with no driver controls. CNBC

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The company

What Zoox 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
Amazon
Founded
2014
Approach
Lidar-led, purpose-built bidirectional vehicle, no driver controls
Vehicles
Own carriage-style robotaxi — four seats facing each other, no steering wheel
Scale
~2M autonomous miles · ~1M passengers carried
Where
Las Vegas (paid), San Francisco (free waitlist), Austin and Miami (staff), Houston and San Diego announced

zoox.com

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