Dubai Robotaxi has travelled more than 4 million kilometres and completed 7,613 passenger trips, with riders giving the driverless service a 97% satisfaction rating.
DUBAI: Driverless taxis are becoming more than just a futuristic idea in Dubai. The city’s Robotaxi programme has now travelled more than 4 million kilometres and completed 7,613 passenger trips, as Dubai moves closer to making autonomous transport part of everyday life.
Dubai Robotaxi currently has a fleet of 144 vehicles, with 48 actively operating and completing around 50 trips each day. One of the biggest signs that people are getting comfortable with the technology is its 97% customer satisfaction rating. For a service that puts passengers inside a car without a driver behind the wheel, that is an important milestone.
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The programme is being introduced gradually rather than putting large numbers of driverless cars on Dubai’s roads at once. Vehicles are first tested in selected areas under real road conditions, allowing teams to check safety, reliability and how the cars deal with everyday traffic. The millions of kilometres already covered also give the RTA valuable information to improve the technology before the service expands further.
Dubai is working with global autonomous driving companies including Baidu’s Apollo Go, WeRide and Pony.ai to grow the service. The aim is to bring driverless taxis into Dubai’s wider transport network alongside the Metro, buses, regular taxis and ride-hailing services. Fully driverless Apollo Go vehicles are also available to riders through Uber in selected areas of Dubai, with New Horizon Luxury Transport operating the fleet.
The growth of Dubai Robotaxi comes as the city’s population has passed 4 million, creating more demand for quick and easy ways to get around. During the first half of 2026 alone, public transport, shared mobility services and taxis carried 348 million passengers, with an average of around 1.9 million riders every day.
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For Dubai, Robotaxis are part of a much bigger transport plan. The emirate wants 25% of all transport journeys to be autonomous by 2030. That means one in every four trips could eventually involve some form of driverless technology.
There is still plenty of testing and expansion ahead before Robotaxis become a normal sight everywhere in the city. But with millions of kilometres completed, thousands of passengers already trying the service and satisfaction at 97%, Dubai’s driverless taxi experiment is quickly moving towards real everyday transport.
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Dubai residents could start seeing and using more driverless taxis as the service expands into new areas. The progress also brings the city another step closer to its goal of making 25% of all transport trips autonomous by 2030.
