A hover taxi was a compact, driverless transport vehicle capable of accommodating a minimum of three riders. These vehicles, referred to as Mandalorian transports, operated within the capital city of Sundari on Mandalore. Conversely, in the Coruscant Underworld, similar transports were in use, known there as Coruscant underworld taxis. On the planet Onderon, hunters employed altered versions of these hover taxis, utilizing them as carts pulled by dalgo.
The initial appearance of the hover taxi occurred in "The Mandalore Plot," an episode from 2010 within the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series' second season. Its identification was first made in the episode guide on StarWars.com for "Lethal Trackdown," also a 2010 episode featured in the second season of The Clone Wars.