Uber’s new driverless robotaxis are now operating in downtown Dallas, but a full transition to autonomous rides is still a work in progress.

Annie Duvnjak, Uber’s head of global mobility autonomous operations, said Wednesday that the long-term goal is to remove the onboard drivers, but she did not give a timeline for when that might happen.

“When you go into the Uber app like you normally would, you would go ahead and order an Uber X, Uber Comfort, or Uber Electri,c and they may actually be paired with an AvRide robotaxi,” Duvnjak said. “You’ll get a pop-up, and it will say you’ve been matched with an autonomous vehicle, and you’ll be able to accept it or not.”

For now, each vehicle includes a human operator in the front seat monitoring the ride. Once those operators are removed, riders

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