Nevada Opens The Door To Thousands Of Paid Robotaxis, And Tesla Has The Edge Tesla, Waymo, and Uber got the green light to start charging for robotaxi rides in the county that’s home to Las Vegas. - Nevada has approved the rollout of paid robotaxi rides for three companies. - Waymo, Tesla, and Uber can now operate commercial autonomous taxi services in the state. - The three companies received permits to deploy over 5,000 vehicles over the next 12 months. Nevada’s Transportation Authority approved three permits allowing Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to offer paid robotaxi rides in Clark County. In total, the three companies can deploy thousands of autonomous cabs over the next 12 months, according to TechCrunch. With roughly 2.5 million residents, Clark County is the home to Nevada’s three largest cities, including Las Vegas. This gives companies a huge pool of potential clients, but whether or not the three entities will actually deploy thousands upon thousands of driverless taxis over the next 12 months is another story. Tesla Model Y Robotaxi Tesla is the biggest beneficiary, with its permit allowing it to flood the streets with up to 5,000 robotaxis. The company will deploy driverless Model Y electric crossovers at first, according to Tesla representatives who took part in the NTA’s General Session meeting yesterday. Meanwhile, Waymo can deploy 1,000 robotaxis, and Uber another 1,000. The latter will tap its partners, Amazon’s Zoox and Hyundai’s Motional. Zoox had already received an autonomous vehicle network company permit that allows it to operate 100 robotaxis. Recently, Waymo started offering paid rides in its new Zeekr-made Ojai minivans in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, but the company said that Las Vegas is on the list of upcoming cities. That said, the company didn’t say whether it would deploy both Ojai