Uber is taking its robotaxi service to Houston.
The company said on 17 June that it will launch a premium driverless service in the city by mid-2027, the second US market for its partnership with EV maker Lucid and self-driving startup Nuro.
It is also the clearest sign yet of how Uber intends to fight Waymo: not by building anything itself, but by assembling the pieces from other companies.
The plan follows a flurry of activity in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the same trio expects to start offering rides later this year. Uber says it will eventually take the programme to “dozens of cities”.
A robotaxi giant that builds no robots
