EVwire brief: Avride says its autonomous vehicles have now completed more than 60,000 passenger rides for Uber riders in Dallas. The company also stated that it has doubled its original Dallas service area, with more expansion planned in the coming months.
Avride noted that its fleet of more than 200 vehicles has driven over 1.3 million autonomous miles to date, including 1 million miles in 2026 alone, across both its research and consumer robotaxi operations.
Here's Avride's update on LinkedIn:
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Uber and Avride launched the Dallas robotaxi service on December 3, 2025. Riders who request an UberX, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric can be matched with an all-electric Avride Hyundai Ioniq 5 at no extra cost, with the option each time to accept the match or switch to a human-driven ride. The original zone was a 9-square-mile (23 sq km) area covering Downtown, Uptown, Turtle Creek, and Deep Ellum.
It should be noted that Avride’s autonomous cars still run with a trained safety operator in the driver's seat. Avride has said that fully driverless operation, with no one behind the wheel, is the goal down the line, but that's not where the Dallas service is today.
Avride’s fleet of autonomous vehicles operates with a safety driver
The growth also comes as Avride is under federal scrutiny. In May, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a preliminary investigation into 16 Avride crashes in Dallas and Austin, one of them involving an alleged minor injury, all of them with a safety operator aboard.
Avride has said it reports every crash to regulators and that its rate of incidents per mile has fallen as its operations have scaled. The company also noted that it has implemented technical and operational mitigations to address the findings from the incidents that incited the NHTSA’s scrutiny.
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