Dallas runs driverless today. Get on the ownership side.

Dallas is one of the six US metros where Tesla’s robotaxis run unsupervised (per Tesla’s Q2 2026 update) (one of the first two Texas expansions beyond Austin) and Waymo operates here too. If you live with driverless cars daily and want to own the next wave of them, this page is the honest version of how that works with DockDuty today.

The honest status: no Dallas depot yet

Market statusDemand open

Where Dallas 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 Dallas

No stall reservations name Dallas 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 Dallas

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; 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 Dallas reservations to support a depot.
• Tesla and Waymo both run driverless in Dallas today, so the service test is already met.
• Texas already runs driverless service in four metros.

What a Dallas 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

September 27, 2026

Reserve a stall and elect Dallas Offer a site in Dallas

See every market’s status, the order book and the dataset this number comes from.

How many stall reservations name Dallas?

None yet (as of October 15, 2026).

DockDuty publishes the current count of stall reservations naming Dallas 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 Dallas?

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; 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 Dallas?

Yes. Use the site form on the DockDuty Network page and name Dallas. A Dallas 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.

You don't have to wait for a Dallas 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; 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 Dallas on the same dashboard our founding clients use today.
• Elect Dallas, TX 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.

We also track every live US robotaxi market on the US Robotaxi Map, jump to Dallas, updated as markets open and free for anyone to cite.

Why Dallas matters to a depot company

Dallas was among the first metros Tesla expanded to beyond Austin, and it runs two networks today (Tesla unsupervised and Waymo) across a metroplex built around DFW, Love Field, and freeway distances that keep ride fleets earning. Every one of those cars needs charging, cleaning, and a stall between rides, the layer DockDuty is building. The primer: what a robotaxi depot actually does, and the dated map of every live robotaxi metro.

One thing Dallas buyers should know: every robotaxi in Dallas today is a company fleet car, Tesla’s and Waymo’s alike, and none of them are owner-supplied. The Cybercab (the car individual owners will put on the network) has no public order book yet. That’s the window: how to be ready on day one. (Texas buyer in Austin instead? There’s a page for you too.)

Is there a robotaxi depot in Dallas?

Yes for the Waymo fleet, whose Dallas depot operations Avis Budget Group runs, but not a DockDuty depot and not one that takes in privately owned cars. Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026, and we are planning locations in several more metros at the same time, including depots in Miami and Tampa Bay, with no site, lease or date yet. Dallas owner reservations are collected as demand. No Dallas location is committed.

Here is what is on the public record for Dallas-Fort Worth, with a source on every line. The linked rows also sit in the US robotaxi depot database, which tracks each documented facility by operator, status and the day its source was last checked.

• Waymo’s Dallas depot, run by Avis Budget Group (operating). When the deal was announced, Avis said it would deliver “end-to-end services including infrastructure, vehicle readiness, maintenance, and depot operations” for Waymo in Dallas (Avis Budget Group, July 29, 2025). A year later TechCrunch reported that “Avis handles general depot operations, including charging and maintaining the vehicles” (TechCrunch, August 4, 2026). Neither company has published the address or size of the site. It is the plainest local example of a third-party robotaxi depot operator: Waymo owns the cars and the driving software, and a rental-car company runs the depot, the charging and the maintenance.
• Tesla Robotaxi hub, Irving (zoning approved). The Irving City Council approved a zoning change on July 16, 2026 that allows Tesla to build a hub for its robotaxis at 4203 W. Royal Lane, just south of Interstate 635 (Coppell Chronicle, July 19, 2026). Site plans and city planning documents describe a 35,000-square-foot warehouse remodel with 16 V4 Supercharger stalls and 212 parking spaces (as reported by Not a Tesla App, May 25, 2026). We have not found a report that construction has started.
• Zoox depot, Dallas (announced). When Zoox said it was “expanding our testing in Texas to Dallas”, it added that it “will also be opening new depots in Phoenix and Dallas” (Zoox, March 9, 2026). No Dallas site has been named.

Who runs robotaxis in Dallas right now?

Three services carry paying riders in Dallas as of September 25, 2026, and a fourth is testing. In the order they arrived:

• Avride on Uber, since December 2025. Uber riders who request UberX, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric can be matched with an Avride Hyundai Ioniq 5 across about nine square miles at launch (Avride says it has since doubled the zone), from Downtown through Uptown and Turtle Creek to Deep Ellum. “At launch, an on-board specialist will be monitoring behind the wheel, before fully driverless operations (with no human behind the wheel) begin in the future” (Uber, December 3, 2025). As of August 2026 every Avride car still carries a specialist behind the wheel (Dallas Morning News, August 19, 2026).
• Waymo, since February 2026. Waymo welcomed its “first public riders” in Dallas on February 24, 2026 (Waymo, February 24, 2026), inside “50 square miles of central Dallas, bordered by Northwest Highway to the north and by the Bishop Arts District and parts of South Dallas to the south” (Dallas Innovates, February 24, 2026). The waitlist ended on August 4: “Starting today, anyone in Dallas can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride,” after nearly 150,000 riders came through the interest list. In the same post Waymo said it was still testing at Dallas Love Field terminals and would soon begin testing on Dallas freeways, “the final step before offering these routes to public riders” (Waymo, August 4, 2026).
• Tesla, since April 2026. Tesla’s first-quarter shareholder update says it “launched unsupervised rides in both Dallas and Houston in April” (Tesla, April 22, 2026, as filed with the SEC). At launch the zone was “focused on central neighborhoods and Highland Park,” and the cars ran “daily from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. local time” (FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, April 20, 2026). The July 22 update lists Dallas as “Ramping Unsupervised” (Tesla Q2 2026 update).
• Zoox, testing. Zoox said in March 2026 that its retrofitted test SUVs would be based in central Dallas neighborhoods, mapping first, and that “there is always a safety driver behind the wheel” (Zoox, March 9, 2026).

What a Dallas Cybercab buyer should take from that. None of those cars is privately owned. Tesla’s own first responder guide, version 1.5 dated September 3, 2026, states: “All Robotaxi vehicles are owned and operated by Tesla at this time” (Tesla, Robotaxi First Responder Interaction Plan). What Dallas does show is how the work splits once a fleet is real: the software drives, and a separate company, here Avis, does the depot work, the charging and the maintenance. That split is the job DockDuty is set up to do for individual owners once a network accepts privately owned cars, and Tesla has not published owner-program terms.

Can Dallas write its own robotaxi rules?

No. The rulebook for Dallas is written in the state capitol, not at Dallas City Hall. As amended by SB 2807, Texas Transportation Code §545.452(b) reads: “A political subdivision of this state may not impose a franchise or other regulation related to the operation of an automated motor vehicle or automated driving system” (SB 2807, enrolled text). The state’s check is the authorization: companies running automated vehicles commercially “are required to maintain an active authorization with TxDMV” (Texas Department of Motor Vehicles). Arizona, where Phoenix runs driverless, works by self-certification instead: an operator there files a law enforcement interaction plan and a written statement with the state before driving with nobody at the wheel (A.R.S. §28-9702). The two regimes are compared on robotaxi laws by state.

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 Mercury in separate, labeled accounts, 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

Is there a DockDuty depot in Dallas?

Not yet, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026, and 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 Texas, with four driverless metros including Dallas, is an obvious cluster. Registering Dallas interest directly shapes where we build next.

Can I own a Cybercab from Dallas before a Dallas 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, reservable from any metro we list (same $450 refundable deposit). 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 Dallas, TX as your preferred market.

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 Dallas-specific version of this question, how much can a robotaxi make in Dallas?, covering which networks actually run here and what that does to the answer.

Dallas is already driverless. Own the next wave.

Reserve a Priority stall today, elect Dallas as your preferred market, and take a Priority spot this round: $450 deposit, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee.

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