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Seattle · ride · not a hail · 2026-09-09

Avride is not a hail in Seattle

Waymo has tested in Seattle since September 2025 with safety drivers aboard and no published timetable for public rides.

A test car with a driver is further from service than an employee-only driverless fleet, so expect the other testing metros to open first.

Not here

Also on the road, not a hail. Waymo

How Avride works where it hails · The Seattle picture

The ride, in order

  1. Open the Uber app and request UberX, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric inside the live Dallas map.
  2. If Uber matches you with an Avride Ioniq 5, you get a notification.Accept it, or switch to a human-driven ride.
  3. When it arrives, check the car against the app.It is an Ioniq 5 with a person in the driver's seat, not a purpose-built pod.
  4. Sit in a passenger seat.The specialist's seat is theirs.
  5. Ride as a normal Uber trip.Need out early? Use the Uber app the way you would on any other ride.
How long it waitsUber's Dallas AV page says the car holds 7 minutes.Confirm the live ETA in the Uber app. We do not publish operating hours.
Worth knowingAn on-board specialist sits in the driver's seat.This is not an unsupervised robotaxi yet. Dallas is the one of our ten metros with public Avride rides.

Also on the road, not hailable. Waymo has tested in Seattle since September 2025 with safety drivers aboard and no published timetable for public rides. A test car with a driver is further from service than an employee-only driverless fleet, so expect the other testing metros to open first.

What a ride costs

Checked 2026-09-09

UberX price

No extra vs that Uber product

Uber Dallas AV page. Confirm the quote in the Uber app. It changes without notice. The app quotes before you confirm.

Details from Avride's own pages and dated reporting, checked 2026-09-09. The app is ground truth. Past the geofence the trip coach picks up · plan the rental half of the trip.

When Avride does hail, get their app

Not here today. The hail itself is still in Avride where they serve riders.

After the hail

Own the FSD-class car

If unsupervised rides clicked, sketch a monthly Tesla lease in Seattle. Numbers are payment floors · FSD (Supervised) is a Tesla software option, not inside these comps.

Comps as of 2026-09-03 · Seattle when we have a local mid · not a quote · Keep the class in Garage, or open Lease.

Open Garage · Lease bay