Austin started the Tesla robotaxi era. Own a piece of it, from Austin.
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 · September 2026
Depot #1 is targeted to open in Orlando in Q4 2026 with its first 50 stalls already reserved, the same metro where Tesla's robotaxi service went live on July 21. Capacity that opens next sells at Priority Owner rates.
Our published roadmap is Florida-first: Miami breaks ground when Orlando is ~80% reserved and operating, Tampa follows. From there we expand wherever the Cybercab market opens: and no US metro has proven that market harder, or longer, than Austin.
Where we build after Florida is shaped by demand we can point to. That's exactly what the list at the bottom of this page is.
Priority Owner stalls are open from Austin
Every stall sells at our Priority Owner rates with a $450 refundable deposit, at Orlando Depot #2 or your own metro’s depot. Reserve a Priority Owner stall, elect Austin, TX in the flow, and your spot is a Priority Owner 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 Owner stall today: reservations open now for Orlando Depot #2 and every metro. 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.
- Your car will earn at depot #1 in Orlando. We’ll park, charge, clean, and dispatch; you watch it from Austin on the same dashboard our founding owners 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 after Florida is a demand question, and this list is the demand. Join it and two things happen: you get one email if a Texas depot moves from roadmap to real, and your interest is counted when we pick the next metro. No drip sequence, and one-click unsubscribe.
Stalls are open in Austin right now, become a Priority Owner 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: We also track every live US robotaxi market on the US Robotaxi Map. See Austin’s entry, updated as markets open and free to cite. what a robotaxi depot actually does, and the analysis of Tesla's Orlando launch in our own depot metro.
One thing Austin buyers should know: today's Tesla robotaxis in Austin are Tesla's own fleet. The Cybercab (the car individual owners will put on the network) 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.)
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:
- $450 refundable at will until your vehicle is onboarded: no window, no reason, no documentation (§3.1), 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).
- If we never open, you get everything back automatically within 30 days (§3.3), and the outside date of December 31, 2028 extends only at your option, not ours.
- If we are acquired, you can leave with a full refund within 30 days of notice (§8.4).
Deposits sit in a segregated account kept solely for owner reservation deposits, separate from operating funds (§2.3). That is a contractual commitment by us, not third-party escrow with an independent agent, and we are not going to call it that. Before you pay anyone in this category, including us, it is worth running the ten checks we published.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a DockDuty depot in Austin?
Not yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. Depot #1 is targeted to open in Orlando in Q4 2026, and our published roadmap is Florida-first. From there 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 Owner stall at Orlando Depot #2 or in your own metro’s depot book (same $450 refundable deposit, one Priority Owner spot per owner or LLC); your car earns at the depot while you watch from Austin, or anywhere else. 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 Owner stall today, elect Austin as your preferred market, and take a Priority Owner spot this round at Priority Owner rates: same $450 deposit, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee.
Own from anywhere. The car earns at the depot. You don't have to live in Florida, or even in the US.