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Platforms and companies offering paid autonomous ride-hailing.
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WeRide (文远知行) is an autonomous driving technology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Guangzhou. Its products span Robotaxi, Robobus, Robovan, Robosweeper and ADAS; it listed on Nasdaq in 2024 (WRD) and in Hong Kong in 2025 (0800.HK).
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Cruise was an American autonomous vehicle company founded in 2013 and acquired by General Motors in 2016. It operated robotaxis before suspending driverless operations after a 2023 San Francisco crash; GM ended funding for its robotaxi development in 2024.
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Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company that entered autonomous mobility with its robotaxi business: it launched paid robotaxi service in Austin, Texas in June 2025, began removing safety drivers from January 2026 and expanded to Houston and Dallas, while its paid rides in the California Bay Area still require a safety driver under state rules.
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DiDi Autonomous Driving is DiDi's Level 4 autonomous driving company. It was spun off as an independent company in August 2019 with DiDi co-founder Zhang Bo as CEO, and runs robotaxi testing and commercial operations in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou under a "mixed dispatch" model.
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Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) is Baidu Apollo's Level 4 autonomous ride-hailing platform. Launched on 18 August 2021, it lets riders hail driverless taxis without a safety driver inside designated operating areas and pay as with a normal ride-hailing trip; by July 2026 it operated in 27 cities worldwide and had provided more than 22 million rides.
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Momenta (魔门塔), founded in 2016 by Cao Xudong, is an intelligent driving company pursuing a "one flywheel, two legs" strategy that combines mass-production assisted driving (Mpilot) with fully autonomous driving products (MSD). Its customers include BYD, SAIC, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, Honda and GM, and its Robotaxi business works with platforms such as Uber and Grab.
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T3 Go (T3出行) is a smart mobility platform built by Nanjing Lingxing Technology Co., Ltd., initiated by China FAW, Dongfeng Motor and Changan Automobile with joint investment from Tencent, Alibaba and others. Founded in 2019, it serves close to 200 cities in China and deploys Robotaxi test fleets in Nanjing and Suzhou through an "operations platform plus technology partner" model.
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Xiangdao Mobility (享道出行) is a smart mobility platform controlled by SAIC Group (SAIC Motor Corporation). It offers ride-hailing, vehicle leasing, vehicle sales and Robotaxi services; its "Xiangdao Robotaxi" has been operating since 2021, providing Level 4 service in pilot areas of Shanghai and Suzhou in deep cooperation with solution providers such as Momenta.
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A robotaxi is a taxi service in which an automated driving system performs the entire dynamic driving task: passengers hail the vehicle through a mobile app and pay as for a licensed taxi. Commercial fleets at scale carry no safety driver and operate only within government-permitted areas.
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DeepRoute.ai (元戎启行) is an AI company founded in 2019 by CEO Dr. Maxwell Zhou, headquartered in Shenzhen. It builds its DeepRoute IO intelligent driving platform and a vision-language-action (VLA) model on end-to-end models, works with automakers such as Great Wall Motor and smart on mass production, and pursues large-scale robotaxi deployment.
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Zoox is an autonomous driving company founded in 2014 that became an independently operated subsidiary of Amazon in 2020. Headquartered in Foster City, California, it develops a purpose-built robotaxi with no steering wheel or driver's seat and launched an autonomous ride-hailing service in Las Vegas in 2025.
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Waymo is the autonomous driving company of Alphabet (Google's parent). It began in 2009 as Google's self-driving car project and became a separate Alphabet subsidiary in December 2016; it operates the Waymo One robotaxi service and is the largest robotaxi operator in the United States.
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Pony AI (小马智行) is a Level 4 autonomous driving company founded in 2016 by Peng Jun and Lou Tiancheng. Its businesses cover robotaxi services, autonomous truck logistics and intelligent solutions; it listed on Nasdaq in 2024 (PONY) and in Hong Kong in 2025.