Uber employees in San Francisco can now request rides in an autonomous Lucid Gravity SUV through the Uber app, marking the latest phase of testing for a robotaxi service the companies plan to open to the public later this year.
The vehicles, outfitted with a self-driving system developed by autonomous technology company Nuro, are operating in autonomous mode with a human safety operator behind the wheel as backup. Nuro confirmed the employee testing phase in a blog post on Monday. While the rollout is limited to select Uber staff for now, it represents meaningful progress since Uber announced a partnership with Lucid and a $300 million investment in the EV maker in July 2025, alongside a separate agreement to purchase at least 20,000 Lucid Gravity SUVs over the next six years. Uber also made an undisclosed multi-hundred-million dollar investment in Nuro.
