Waymo registers – Texas’ new DMV tracker now shows Waymo leading by a wide margin: 577 registered autonomous vehicles in the state. Tesla sits far lower at 42 as other competitors—Avride, Nuro, and Zoox—remain behind, with the tool also listing self-driving truck fleets.
The first time most Texans will be able to look at an official number of autonomous vehicles on the road, the results feel lopsided.
Texas’ Department of Motor Vehicles has launched a new automated vehicle tracker that publicly lists how many autonomous vehicles companies have registered in the state. The figures land right as a new law takes hold: starting May 28. companies testing or deploying autonomous vehicles in Texas must register with the DMV and provide counts of their fleets. along with other safety information.
On the vehicle side, Alphabet-owned Waymo owns the top spot by a distance that’s hard to miss. It has registered 577 autonomous vehicles in Texas.
Avride follows with 317, while Nuro is listed with 47. Tesla. despite launching a robotaxi service in Austin last summer and later saying it expanded to Dallas and Houston. has registered 42 autonomous vehicles in the state. Another company with registered autonomous vehicles is Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA, which has a fleet of 12 electric, autonomous microbuses.
Zoox is also included among the emerging competitors shown in the tracker, though the gap between the leaders and the rest is the story the DMV data makes impossible to ignore.
The numbers don’t tell the whole operational picture. A fleet size is not the same thing as active deployment. and not every company with registered vehicles is running a commercial service. Nuro and Zoox. for example. are not operating commercially. and even when a company is. registration won’t reveal how heavily those vehicles are being used day to day. Waymo’s own experience underscores that point: the company paused operations in some Texas cities earlier this month because of issues with how its vehicles operate around floods.
Still, the tracker gives the clearest accounting Texas has had so far—and it makes the competitive distance between Waymo and Tesla stand out in plain numbers.
Over time, the DMV website is designed to show change, with the hope that these registration counts will reflect growth. Waymo launched its commercial service in Austin in March 2025, then expanded to Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
The same tool also tracks other uses of autonomous vehicle technology, including self-driving trucks. Aurora, a publicly traded company that launched a commercial driverless trucking business in May 2025, is listed with 91 self-driving trucks. Kodiak AI and Waabi register 33 and 13 self-driving trucks, respectively. Gatik AI, which focuses on self-driving mid-sized trucks, is listed with 64 vehicles in its fleet.
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So Waymo has 577 and Tesla only 42? Guess the robotaxis are basically not a thing yet.
I don’t get how registered vs actually driving matters. If they’re registered then they should be out there, right? Sounds like a propaganda scoreboard.
Wait y’all—Tesla has 42 “autonomous vehicles” but Tesla already does robotaxi in Austin? Maybe they’re not counting the rides or it’s only cars not trucks? Also Waymo paused stuff from floods?? so the numbers are kinda pointless? idk.
This Texas DMV tracker thing feels like it just tells you who filled out paperwork fastest. Like of course Waymo is ahead, they’ve been selling “maps” and licensing forever. Tesla should’ve had more by now though, unless those 42 are like… ghost cars sitting somewhere. And why is there a truck list too, does that mean they’re all equally safe? Seems messed up.