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Austin, TX

What the federal record holds for this city, and who is hiring here. Report counts follow deployment, not danger — a city leads because more robotaxis drive in it.

Crash reports filed
296
9.2% of the national record
Operators on record
6
Companies with at least one filing naming this city
Open roles
30
Live postings — hiring moves before a permit does
Months with activity
40
2021-07 – 2026-07

Who operates here

Share of this city's filed reports, by operator.

Waymo181 · 61%
Cruise46 · 16%
Avride28 · 9%
Tesla21 · 7%
Unattributed17 · 6%
Zoox3 · 1%

This city against the national record

Severity mix here, beside the same mix across every city.

AustinAll cities
AustinAll citiesProperty damage1561110No Injuries Reported1171674Minor, no hosp.879763Minor4137Minor, hosp.336
Severity comparison for Austin against the national record across 6 categories.

The two sides use the same scale, so the national side dominates by construction — it is a much larger sample. Compare the shape, not the length.

Reports by month

Month resolution only. A gap is a month with nothing filed, not a month with no driving.

2021-071
2022-062
2022-104
2023-044
2023-058
2023-062
2023-076
2023-088
2023-0914
2023-105
2023-112
2024-012
2024-024
2024-032
2024-042
2024-052
2024-062
2024-071
2024-094
2024-104
2024-114
2024-125
2025-013
2025-023
2025-038
2025-048
2025-059
2025-0612
2025-078
2025-0913
2025-1011
2025-1112
2025-1215
2026-0116
2026-0212
2026-0325
2026-0422
2026-0512
2026-0617
2026-072

Hiring here

Open roles naming this city. Field and operations roles in particular move months ahead of a service launch.

Lead Test Engineer AV Safety Assurance2026-09-04
Senior Test Engineer - Metrics Quality2026-09-01
Lead Test Engineer - Scenario Coverage & Evaluation Datasets2026-08-19
Data Quality Analyst- Autonomous Vehicles 2026-08-19
Software Engineer, Networking & Linux Systems2026-08-05
Lead AI Infrastructure Engineer2026-07-29
Team Lead, Ground Operations (3rd Shift)2026-07-20
Sensor Integration Software Engineer – Autonomous Vehicles2026-07-15
Lead Software Engineer – Control2026-07-02
Senior Frontend Engineer – Engineering Productivity Systems2026-06-29
Safety Case Lead2026-06-23
Senior Manager – HR Operations2026-06-12

California carriers file the census tracts they operated in, but the driverless programmes redact the trip counts inside them.

The only complete tract-level geography in the public record belongs to Cruise, which stopped operating in 2024.