Waymo has nearly 600 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas, far more than emerging rivals Avride, Nuro, Tesla and Zoox, according to data available on a new website released by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.
The automated vehicle tracking tool — part of a new law requiring AV companies to register with the DMV — gives the public the first accurate and easily accessible record of how many autonomous vehicles there are in Texas. The state law, which went into effect on May 28, requires companies testing or developing AVs in the state to share how many vehicles are in their fleets as well as other safety information.
It also shows how wide the gap is between Waymo and rival Tesla – two companies that offer commercial robotaxi services.
Alphabet-owned Waymo has registered 577 autonomous vehicles in Texas, followed by Avride with 317 and Nuro with 47. Tesla, which launched a robotaxi service in Austin last summer and has since said it has expanded to Dallas and Houston, has registered 42 autonomous vehicles. Other companies with autonomous vehicle registrations in the state include Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA, which has a fleet of 12 electric, autonomous minibuses.
The size of an autonomous vehicle fleet only reveals so much about where a company sits on the leaderboard. Many of these companies — Nuro and Zoox, for example — do not operate commercially. Nor do these numbers track how many vehicles are in active use. (Waymo, for example, suspended operations in some Texas cities earlier this month because of problems with how its vehicles would operate in the event of flooding.)
But there’s no doubting Waymo’s dominance in Texas — at least for now.
Over time, the tool should provide some measure of growth. Waymo launched its commercial service in Austin in March 2025 and has since expanded to Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
The site also provides registration information for other autonomous vehicle technology applications, including self-driving trucks. Aurora, a publicly traded company that launched a commercial driverless trucking business in May 2025, has 91 autonomous trucks. Major competitors Kodiak AI and Waabi have 33 and 13 self-driving trucks, respectively. Gatik AI, a startup focused on mid-size autonomous trucks, has 64 vehicles in its fleet.
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