Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority published a fresh operational snapshot for its robotaxi programme on 19 August: 4 million cumulative kilometres, 7,613 completed passenger trips, and a 97 percent satisfaction score collected from riders after the ride.
What the fleet numbers actually measure
The active fleet is 144 vehicles, with 48 running at any given time and roughly 50 trips a day across the group, so each active car is completing roughly one trip a day. That ratio matters more than the headline count: it tells you the programme is still constrained by approved zones and regulatory scope rather than by vehicle supply. The operators are Baidu's Apollo Go, WeRide, and Pony.ai, each running under the same RTA framework but with separate fleets and separate zones.
The new distribution channel
Apollo Go vehicles are now bookable fully driverless through the Uber app, with New Horizon Luxury Transport as the fleet operator. That is a dispatch integration, not a new fleet, so any jump in trip volume after 19 August is attributable to demand routing through Uber rather than more cars on the road.
Context for the ratio
Dubai's broader mobility network carried 348 million riders in the first half of 2026, about 1.9 million trips a day. Against that, 50 robotaxi trips a day is a rounding error, useful as the denominator for tracking progress toward the RTA's stated target of one in four trips autonomous by 2030.
Originally published on Doment, Dubai property intelligence.
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