What's inside Bytonomous
Bytonomous is a neutral atlas of every self-driving taxi service — who runs where, what it costs, which app to open, and how ready each place is. Here's the whole thing, laid out. We don't sell rides and we take nothing from the operators; the point is to be the reference you can trust.
The atlas
The core: every operator, every city we track, and exactly how you'd catch a ride.
Operators
Waymo, Tesla, Zoox, May Mobility, Baidu (Apollo Go), Pony.ai and WeRide — plus the Uber and Lyft aggregators, with a note that they only show their own partners.
Cities
US metros from San Francisco to Nashville, and international: Wuhan, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Guangzhou. Each with status, price, the app to open, and a source.
Maps
A US coverage map, plus an approximate service-area outline per city drawn from each operator's own coverage, always linking to their official map.
Compare
A coverage matrix and head-to-head pages between operators.
The Readiness Score
A 0–100 score with an A–F grade, built from scratch — no data vendor. It weighs availability, maturity, choice and momentum, and powers the rankings.
Per city
Shown as a ring on every city page, with the exact factor breakdown behind it.
Rankings
A leaderboard of every US metro by how ready it is to ride.
Methodology
A page that explains precisely how the number is built, so it can be checked.
Beyond the ride
Context most trackers skip: who builds these cars, who owns the companies, and where the whole field is heading.
Manufacturing
The vehicle model, purpose-built vs. adapted, factories, stated build cost, employees and HQ — official sources only.
Stocks
Live ticker badges for the public companies behind the operators.
Beyond taxis
The wider autonomy picture — trucks, buses, planes, trains — and the big open questions.
Insurance and liability
Accidents, recalls, privacy, accessibility, refunds, lost-and-found, and unaccompanied minors.
Accuracy, from official sources
The reliability layer. Every fact here comes from an operator, airport, or regulator — never a news site.
Service areas
Each operator's geofence re-checked and reshaped against their published coverage, with a note that services are still testing and cars may appear outside the bookable zone.
Airport access
For each airport: which operators ride to and from it, where exactly, and the per-trip fee — with the fact that robotaxis pay the same fee as Uber and Lyft.
On your street
Why robotaxis wait and stage in fixed spots, using the real San Francisco honking and Santa Monica charging cases — with honest guidance that no operator guarantees removing an address.
Report an inaccuracy
A one-click reporter in the footer of every page that captures which page you're on and routes your correction straight to us.
Tools for readers
Ways to get value out and put something back in.
Ride reviews
Leave feedback with photos or video; each one is checked before it shows publicly.
Alerts
Get an email the moment a service turns on or widens its area in a city you care about.
Report a staging spot
Tell us where you keep seeing cars wait, or flag an address you'd rather they avoided — kept private.
App links
Direct App Store and Google Play links for every operator, right where you need them.
Two languages, everywhere
The entire site — every page, note, form and error — reads natively in English and Spanish, with the right page served for each and proper hreflang for search.
The design
Rebuilt around a simple idea: answer the question first, then let the detail come on demand.
Answer first
City pages open with a plain verdict — can you ride here, and which app — a readiness ring, and a short row of the numbers that matter.
Details in tabs
The map, airports, staging, score and FAQ tuck into tabs instead of one long scroll — and stay fully readable to search engines.
Editorial, not template
A warm, light look with a serif headline and one confident accent — written like a person, not a marketing deck.
Under the hood
Everything runs on our own stack — no third-party trackers watching readers.
First-party analytics
Cookieless, self-hosted: page views, sessions, a conversion funnel, visitor journeys, and breakdowns by language, device, country and referrer.
Admin
A private dashboard to read analytics and handle reviews, messages, leads, staging reports and inaccuracy reports.
Public API
A versioned JSON API for cities, operators and stocks, with a key-request flow for developers.
Security
Per-IP rate limits, honeypots on every form, input caps, security headers, and database row-level security.
Kept current
A tracker is only as good as how fresh it is.
Daily snapshots
The live data is recorded as a dated time-series each day — history that can't be back-filled later.
Search
Sitemaps, structured data, and instant search-engine pings when things change.
Auto-updating (coming)
A bot to keep facts current is built and waiting on approvals before it goes live.