Austin robotaxis started here, and so did the Cybercab. Own a piece of it, from Austin.
Robotaxis in Austin, checked October 29, 2026: Tesla gave its first Cybercab rides to invited guests on September 3, 2026 and opened them to the public in the Tesla Robotaxi app on September 4 (Tesla North, September 4, 2026), and Austin is still the only city where the public can ride one: Tesla’s Cybercab FAQ listed rides only in limited areas of Austin when we checked it on October 23, 2026. Tesla says Austin service runs 6 a.m. to midnight (Tesla Q3 2026 Update, as filed with the SEC), and on October 10 its Robotaxi account said more than 300 Cybercabs were serving Austin (Drive Tesla, October 11, 2026). Waymo rides here come through the Uber app. There is no DockDuty depot in Austin, and Austin owners can still reserve a refundable $450 Priority stall today and name Austin as their market. Here to ride, not to own? Read how to book a Cybercab in Austin or our Austin robotaxi service area guide.
Teslas with nobody in the driver’s seat have been carrying paying passengers in Austin since June 2025, and the fleet runs fully driverless today, the first market, the biggest zone expansions, the deepest public record of what a robotaxi fleet actually does all day. If you live with robotaxis daily and want to be on the ownership side of them, this page is the honest version of how that works with DockDuty today.
The honest status: no Austin depot yet
Where DockDuty stands · October 2026
Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026 or Q1 2027, the same metro where Tesla's robotaxi service went live on July 21. Stall reservations are open now at Priority rates, with a $450 refundable deposit.
We are planning locations in several more metros at the same time, including depots in Miami and Tampa Bay. Beyond those, we expand wherever the Cybercab market opens: and no US metro has proven that market harder, or longer, than Austin.
Where we build next is shaped by demand we can point to. That's exactly what the list at the bottom of this page is.
Market statusDemand open
Where Austin stands in the DockDuty Network
- Status
- Demand open. Owners can elect this market at checkout and the count is published; nothing else is committed.
- Stall reservations naming Austin
- No stall reservations name Austin yet.
- What the count means
- One stall reservation is one Cybercab stall reserved with a paid or clearing $450 refundable deposit that names a preferred market. The count is stalls, not clients, and a reservation is not a vehicle on site or an operating stall. Unpaid, failed, cancelled and refunded checkouts never count. No DockDuty depot is operating anywhere yet.
- Depot status
- Owners can reserve and name this market. That records demand; it is not a depot project or a commitment to open.
- What would bring DockDuty to Austin
DockDuty opens a market when enough reservations point at it to support a depot, a driverless service is carrying paying riders there or state law allows one, and a site with the power to charge the fleet is available. Orlando is the lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026 or Q1 2027; DockDuty is planning locations in several more metros at the same time, including depots in Miami and Tampa Bay, with no site, lease or date yet.
- Enough Austin reservations to support a depot.
- Tesla robotaxis have run here since June 2025 and the fleet runs fully driverless today, so the service test is already met.
- What an Austin site needs
- Space at depot scale: room to park, stage and clean a fleet, not a handful of spaces.
- Commercial power that can scale with the fleet.
- DC fast charging. The Cybercab charges DC-only through the NACS port and has no onboard AC charger.
- 24/7 access and staffing.
- Proximity to ride demand.
- Last reviewed
See every market’s status, the order book and the dataset this number comes from.
How many stall reservations name Austin?
None yet (as of live count).
DockDuty publishes the current count of stall reservations naming Austin on this page, dated to the day it was read from the reservation system. One stall reservation is one Cybercab stall reserved with a paid or clearing $450 refundable deposit that names a preferred market. The count is stalls, not clients, and a reservation is not a vehicle on site or an operating stall. Unpaid, failed, cancelled and refunded checkouts never count.
What would make DockDuty open a depot in Austin?
DockDuty opens a market when enough reservations point at it to support a depot, a driverless service is carrying paying riders there or state law allows one, and a site with the power to charge the fleet is available. Orlando is the lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026 or Q1 2027; DockDuty is planning locations in several more metros at the same time, including depots in Miami and Tampa Bay, with no site, lease or date yet.
Can I offer a site or a lot in Austin?
Yes. Use the site form on the DockDuty Network page and name Austin. An Austin site needs space at depot scale, commercial power that can scale, DC fast charging (the Cybercab charges DC-only through the NACS port and has no onboard AC charger), 24/7 access and staffing, and proximity to ride demand.
Priority stalls are open from Austin
Every stall sells at our Priority rates with a $450 refundable deposit, in every metro we list. Reserve a Priority stall, elect Austin, TX in the flow, and your spot is a Priority spot this round.
You don't have to wait for an Austin dock
DockDuty is an own-from-anywhere platform, and the reservation attaches to the network, not to one city:
- Reserve a Priority stall today: Priority stall reservations are open in every metro we list. Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026 or Q1 2027; no depot is open yet. The $450 deposit is taken at checkout, is fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded and credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee.
- When DockDuty announces the next depot with capacity for your stall, you have 30 days to tell us in writing whether to onboard there, keep waiting for a depot in your market, or take a refund. If you don’t reply, you’re set to onboard at that depot. Once your car is onboarded, we’ll park, charge, clean, and dispatch; you watch it from Austin on the same dashboard our founding clients use today.
- Elect Austin as your preferred market right in the reservation flow. When the network reaches your city, your preference is already on file.
Want the money math first? Run the Cybercab earnings calculator: set your assumptions, see the full fee breakdown, and have your exact scenario emailed to you. Projections, not guarantees: nobody has fleet-scale Cybercab earnings history yet, including us.
The Austin list
Where we build next is a demand question, and this list is the demand. Join it and two things happen: you get an email when a Texas depot moves from roadmap to real, and your interest is counted when we pick the next metro. You also get a short welcome email now and our occasional owner update. No drip sequence, and one-click unsubscribe.
Stalls are open in Austin right now, become a Priority client for $450 per cab, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded.
Why Austin matters to a depot company
Every robotaxi on the road needs the same things between rides: charging, cleaning, inspection, and a place to wait that isn't a curb. No metro has run Tesla’s version of that experiment in public longer than Austin, and it's exactly the operational layer DockDuty exists to run for individual owners. We wrote the primer on what a robotaxi depot actually does, and the analysis of Tesla's Orlando launch in our lead depot metro. We also track every live US robotaxi market on the US Robotaxi Map, Austin’s entry included, updated as markets open and free to cite.
One thing Austin buyers should know: today's Tesla robotaxis in Austin are Tesla's own fleet. The Cybercab (the car Tesla has said individuals may one day own) is rolling off the line at Giga Texas and joining that fleet, still with no public order book for individual buyers. That's the window: how to be ready on day one. (Texas buyer in Dallas or Houston instead? There are pages for Dallas and Houston too.)
Just want a ride? Our Austin robotaxi guide maps where Tesla and Waymo drive in Austin today, suburb by suburb, plus the airport question.
Is this legal in Texas?
Yes, and it has been for longer than most people realise. SB 2205 (2017) authorized driverless operation statewide with no safety driver required, and barred city-by-city rules, which is the main reason four Texas metros run driverless today while much larger states have none. SB 2807 added a TxDMV authorization for commercial operators, enforceable from May 28, 2026: free, non-expiring, with personal-use vehicles exempt.
Where that last exemption leaves an individual owner whose car earns on somebody else’s network is a real question, and one for a Texas lawyer rather than a depot company. We set out what the statutes say and what they leave open in Texas robotaxi law, in plain English, and the four-metro picture is on the Texas page. Neither is legal advice.
What we put in writing
Nobody can honestly tell you what a Cybercab will earn, no privately owned one has completed a paid ride anywhere, so every projection is a projection. What is worth comparing between operators is what happens to you if it goes wrong, and whether it is written down before you pay. Ours is, in the agreement that renders in the checkout before the card field:
- Your $450 deposit is refundable at your request at any time before your vehicle is onboarded, with no reason or documentation required. If DockDuty publicly announces it will not open any depot, or ceases operations, outstanding deposits are refunded automatically within 30 days. The Reservation Agreement (§3) governs. To request a refund, email owners@dockduty.com from the email on file. Refunds are initiated within five business days.
- You keep title, always. Nothing transfers any ownership interest in any vehicle to DockDuty (§4.3).
- Month-to-month. No minimum term, no early-termination penalty (§4.3).
- Fee caps: onboarding never above $1,000 per vehicle, intake balance never above $550, no other mandatory fees (§2.2). Charging electricity included, no markup on energy (§4.1).
- Outside date December 31, 2028. If your first vehicle is not onboarded by then and the delay isn’t on your side, you choose a full refund or twelve-month extensions, at your option, not ours (§3.3).
- If we are acquired, you can leave with a full refund within 30 days of notice (§8.4).
Deposits are held at Axos Bank in a separate savings account, kept apart from our operating balance. Owners can request a written confirmation letter. (§2.3) Before you pay anyone in this category, including us, it is worth running the ten checks we published.
Frequently asked questions
Can I own a Cybercab in Austin?
Not yet. The Cybercabs carrying Austin riders since September 2026 are Tesla’s own fleet. Tesla says it is trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of 2026 and has not published owner-program terms. Austin owners can reserve a refundable $450 Priority stall now and name Austin as their market. To ride one today, read how to book a Cybercab in Austin.
Is there a DockDuty depot in Austin?
Not yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026 or Q1 2027, and we are planning locations in several more metros at the same time. Beyond those, we expand wherever the Cybercab market opens, and registering Austin interest directly shapes where we build next.
Can I own a Cybercab from Austin before an Austin depot exists?
Yes. That's the point of own-from-anywhere. Your reservation attaches to the DockDuty network, not to one city. Today that means a Priority stall (same $450 refundable deposit, one Priority spot per person or company). When DockDuty announces the next depot with capacity for your stall, you have 30 days to tell us in writing whether to onboard there, keep waiting for a depot in your market, or take a refund. If you don’t reply, you’re set to onboard at that depot. In the reservation flow you can elect Austin, TX as your preferred market for future depots.
How much could a Cybercab make?
Nobody has fleet-scale Cybercab earnings history yet (including us) so treat every number anyone quotes as a projection. The earnings calculator shows the full fee math for your assumptions and can email you your exact scenario. We wrote the Austin-specific version of this question, how much can a robotaxi make in Austin?, covering which networks actually run here and what that does to the answer.
Austin proved the cars. Now own one.
Reserve a Priority stall today, elect Austin as your preferred market, and take a Priority spot this round at Priority rates: same $450 deposit, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee.
When the depot opens, owners drop off the car and get monthly statements.