Zoox, the autonomous vehicle startup, is expanding to Las Vegas, CTO Jesse Levinson said at TechCrunch Disrupt ST.

The startup, which has raised $800 million and has been testing on public roads in San Francisco, said Las Vegas is a target market for its autonomous driving fleet and service. Las Vegas will serve as an anchor market for Zoox. The company plans to test, validate and refine its autonomous vehicle technology with future plans to launch an autonomous ride-hailing service there, Levinson said.

Zoox received permission from the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles to drive autonomously on state roads in early 2019. The startup is currently mapping and test-driving new routes in the greater Las Vegas region.

For now, Zoox, is doing strategic testing to keep costs in line, CEO Aicha Evans told TechCrunch during Disrupt. That means, Zoox will send its retrofitted Toyota Highlander autonomous vehicles to Las Vegas for blocks of time, maybe six weeks or so. The company has now completed five of these deployments.

Over time, Zoox will expand its time and footprint in the city. Eventually, Zoox will bring its built-from-the ground-up autonomous vehicles to the city, although the company didn’t share when that might be.

Zoox says it selected Las Vegas because the region offers an opportunity to extend learning in a second dense urban environment and one that has diverse and unique use cases compared to driving in San Francisco. For instance, Las Vegas has reversible lanes, complex pick-up and drop-off zones, high temperatures and more night-time activity, the company said.