Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027
Uber plans to launch a premium robotaxi service in Houston by mid-2027, making it the second U.S. market under its partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro.
The announcement follows a flurry of activity in the San Francisco Bay Area, as the trio of companies prepare to offer a robotaxi service there later this year. Uber says it will eventually take the robotaxi program to “dozens of cities” in the coming years.
For now, the focus is on San Francisco and then Houston — both markets where Uber will go head-to-head with rival Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company that currently operates commercial robotaxi services in both cities.
Nuro has spent months testing Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with its self-driving system in San Francisco and has made progress on that front, including giving Uber employeesthe ability to hail the Lucid robotaxis. But these vehicles still aren’t...
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