You can hail one in some cities

This is live, not a brochure. In 2026 a stranger can hail a car with no driver in a growing list of cities.

In the United States, Waymo runs paid rides with no driver in roughly fifteen metros by late 2026; the exact count keeps moving. Tesla runs rides without a safety driver in a smaller set, and began limited public rides in a purpose-built two-seat car in Austin in September 2026. In China, Apollo Go, Pony.ai, and WeRide claim larger ride counts. In March 2026 a fault in Wuhan stopped a mass of cars in traffic and passengers got out. Scale and outage both belong in the picture.

Every one of these services runs inside a geofence: a mapped area the car knows well. Outside the fence, the service stops. A painted waterfront loop is an easy fence. Quay Street at six in the morning is not.

Once you know it is real and it is fenced, the question for Millspan is not whether the cars work. It is which streets they are allowed to serve, and how.

The tempting mistake is to believe the cars run everywhere already, or nowhere yet.

That is what lets you ask where the cars go when nobody is inside.