Denver’s robotaxi map has an edge. Most of the metro is outside it.

Waymo began welcoming public riders in Denver on September 1, 2026, by rolling invitation from the app sign-up list, after an employee-only driverless phase announced July 8, the same day it opened San Diego and Tampa. The service area has a published boundary: roughly 50 square miles inside the City and County of Denver, edged by US 36 and I-25, the University of Denver, Sheridan Boulevard and Central Park. If you live in Arvada, Highlands Ranch, or anywhere else on the Front Range, you’re outside the line, and this page is the honest version of what that means if the side of the trade you care about is owning the cars.

The honest status: no Denver depot yet

Market statusDemand open

Where Denver 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 Denver

No stall reservations name Denver 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 Denver

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 Denver reservations to support a depot.
• Waymo has been open to riders by invitation since September 1, 2026, under a permit-free statute, so the service and legal tests are met.

What a Denver 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

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How many stall reservations name Denver?

None yet (as of October 15, 2026).

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

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 Denver?

Yes. Use the site form on the DockDuty Network page and name Denver. A Denver 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 live inside the line

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 Arvada or Highlands Ranch on the same dashboard our founding clients use today.
• Elect Denver, CO as your preferred market right in the reservation flow. When the network reaches your part of the map, 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 Denver, updated as markets open and free for anyone to cite.

What about Arvada, Highlands Ranch, and the rest of the Front Range?

People across the metro have been searching this by town, and Denver is the rare place where the answer has a hard edge. Waymo’s zone, as mapped by the Colorado Sun on August 21, 2026, runs from the US 36 / I-25 junction in the north to the University of Denver in the south, from Sheridan Boulevard in the west to Central Park in the east, plus a piece of Glendale. Arvada, Highlands Ranch and Morrison are all outside it. So is Denver International Airport, the metro’s single biggest ride generator at a record 82.4 million passengers in 2025, which says it is in conversations with Waymo about service that would require the same kind of ground-transportation permit Uber and Lyft hold.

And per Colorado State Patrol, Waymo’s current operating agreement covers the city of Denver only. There is no announced timeline that puts a network on a street in Jefferson or Douglas County. The pattern from every other metro is a dense core first, widening in steps, Orlando’s launch zone still excludes its northern suburbs weeks in.

If you’re reading this as a rider, that’s the whole answer and the map is where we keep it current. If you’re reading it as a would-be owner, the line matters much less than you’d think. Your reservation attaches to the DockDuty network, not to one city, so an Arvada owner and a Capitol Hill owner have exactly the same economics.

Why Colorado matters to a depot company

Colorado’s statute is among the most permissive in the country, and it’s unusual in a specific way: the permission is the default and the paperwork is the exception. SB 17-213: effective August 9, 2017, codified at C.R.S. 42-4-242, lets an automated driving system drive a vehicle if the system can comply with every state and federal law. No state AV permit exists. No DMV program, no application. The only approval gate is for systems that can’t yet comply, and SB 17-213 bars any political subdivision from holding an automated driving system to standards different from a human driver’s (C.R.S. 42-4-110(6)), so no suburb can impose robotaxi-specific rules of its own. The legislature tested that framework twice with automated commercial-vehicle bills, and the governor vetoed both, May 2025 and May 2026. In Colorado the constraint is geography, never law. Where your state falls on that spectrum is its own question, answered state by state here.

The buyers are here too. Colorado led the country in EV adoption in Q3 2025 at 32.4% of new vehicle sales, a state record and a national one. That’s the densest concentration of people already comfortable owning the kind of car a robotaxi is. What none of them have yet is the layer this company runs: the stall, the charging, the cleaning, the dispatch, what a robotaxi depot actually does.

One thing Front Range buyers should know: today’s Denver service is Waymo’s own fleet: Ojai vehicles only, a couple dozen as of late August, with plans for hundreds in Colorado. The Cybercab (the car individual owners will put on a network) has no public order book yet. That’s the window: how to be ready on day one. Electing Denver in the reserve flow is the clearest signal we get about where the network goes next.

Is there a robotaxi depot in Denver?

Not a DockDuty one: DockDuty has no depot in Denver and has not announced one. DockDuty collects Denver owner reservations as demand, not as a commitment; the status of every market is on the DockDuty Network page. Waymo does run an operations depot for its own Denver fleet, where it charges, cleans and maintains the cars, but no robotaxi company has published a depot address in Denver as of October 1, 2026.

The US robotaxi depot database has no Denver row as of October 1, 2026. What the public record does show, one source per line:

• Waymo’s Denver operations depot (operating, address not published). Waymo told Denverite it has launched an operations depot where it charges, cleans and maintains its Denver cars, and that the service may “temporarily use public chargers as needed” while it builds out its own infrastructure (Denverite, September 11, 2026). The report does not give the depot’s location.
• Before that, temporary space downtown. In November 2025, Denver transportation officials said they did not know where Waymo kept its cars for charging and storage, and Waymo said it was using “temporary facilities downtown” until it opened a larger, permanent depot (The Denver Post, via GovTech, November 10, 2025).

Robotaxis in Denver: what is live and what is only announced

As of October 1, 2026, the US Robotaxi Map lists one live operator in Denver, Waymo. Zoox is bringing a test fleet with no riders, and Tesla has announced nothing for the city. The record, with dates:

• Waymo: public riders by invitation since September 1, 2026. On July 8, 2026, Waymo said its Denver cars would soon drive with no specialist at the wheel and that “these rider-only operations will initially be for employees” (Waymo, July 8, 2026). On September 1 it began welcoming its first public riders in Denver, said tens of thousands had signed up in each new city, and said it would open access to more riders over time (Waymo, September 1, 2026). Waymo’s own city list now shows Denver under “Serving Riders In” (Waymo, read October 1, 2026).
• Waymo’s fleet and footprint: small for now. State records obtained by Denverite show Waymo registered 26 autonomous taxis for passenger service in Colorado, in lists it submitted on August 30 and 31, all bought between March and June 2026; a Waymo spokesperson said the fleet will grow “to hundreds of vehicles over time” (Denverite, September 11, 2026). A Waymo spokesperson put the initial service area at approximately 50 square miles (Colorado Sun, August 21, 2026); KUNC described it as about 60 square miles on September 25 (KUNC, September 25, 2026).
• Zoox: winter testing with safety operators, no riders. Zoox told 9NEWS it will run a small test fleet in Denver for a few months this winter to train its system on heavy rain and snow. A spokesperson said the vehicles will be driven manually by trained safety operators and will carry no passengers, and the company said it is not expanding service operations to Denver at this time (9NEWS, via the Denver Gazette, September 30, 2026).
• Tesla: nothing announced for Denver. The “Announced Robotaxi Coverage” table in Tesla’s Q2 2026 shareholder update names nine metros in five states, and Colorado is not one of them (Tesla Q2 2026 update, as filed with the SEC).

Where a private Cybercab owner fits today. Not in that record. The 26 Waymo cars on the Colorado list were bought by Waymo, and Tesla’s first responder guide for its Robotaxi service, version 1.5 dated September 3, 2026, says “All Robotaxi vehicles are owned and operated by Tesla at this time” (Tesla, Robotaxi First Responder Interaction Plan). Tesla has not published terms for owners. A Denver reservation with DockDuty records demand for this metro; it does not commit DockDuty to a Denver depot.

Colorado’s robotaxi rules: the statute, the fare permit and the ticket gap

The no-permit rule described above comes from section 42-4-242, added by SB 17-213, which was signed into law on June 1, 2017 (Colorado General Assembly, SB 17-213). Two of its other provisions matter to anyone running a fleet. Vehicle-code rules that by their nature regulate a human driver do not apply to an automated driving system, except laws on the physical driving of the car, and liability for a crash with no human in control is “determined in accordance with applicable state law, federal law, or common law”, so the statute leaves crash liability to existing law. Testing a system that cannot yet obey traffic law without State Patrol and CDOT approval is a class B traffic infraction, and the State Patrol may impound or immobilize the vehicle (SB 17-213, signed act).

Charging fares runs through a different agency. On May 28, 2026, Waymo applied to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for a luxury limousine permit, which the PUC granted effective June 12; two transportation companies, including the owner of Metro Taxi and Yellow Cab, then filed to challenge Waymo’s separate request for a waiver to use its Ojai vehicle (Denverite, July 9, 2026). Denverite later reported that the PUC approved the license over the taxi companies’ objections (Denverite, September 11, 2026). That is a passenger-carrier permit, not an AV permit: under PUC rules a luxury limousine may only provide prearranged charter service to a single chartering party, at rates the PUC does not regulate (Colorado PUC, passenger carrier FAQ). Enforcement has its own gap. A State Patrol spokesperson told the Colorado Sun that officers can pull a Waymo over but cannot cite it, because “Colorado law doesn’t include operating companies as ‘drivers’” (Colorado Sun, August 21, 2026). Colorado sits beside Arizona, Texas and Florida on robotaxi laws by state. None of this is legal advice.

Frequently asked questions

Does a robotaxi serve Arvada, Highlands Ranch, or the Denver suburbs?

Not yet, and the boundary is published, so this one has a precise answer. Waymo’s Denver service area is roughly 50 square miles inside the City and County of Denver plus a slice of Glendale, edged by US 36 and I-25 to the north, the University of Denver to the south, Sheridan Boulevard to the west and Central Park to the east, per Colorado Sun reporting from August 21, 2026. Arvada, Highlands Ranch, Morrison, and the rest of the Front Range sit outside that line, and so does Denver International Airport. Since September 1, 2026 the service has been open to public riders by rolling invitation from the app sign-up list, after an employee-only phase that began in July. If you are looking at this as an owner rather than a rider, the line matters less than you would think, because your reservation attaches to the DockDuty network, not to one city.

Does Colorado law allow robotaxis?

Yes, and with less paperwork than almost anywhere. Colorado’s SB 17-213, effective August 9, 2017 and codified at C.R.S. 42-4-242, permits an automated driving system to drive a vehicle if the system can comply with every state and federal law. There is no state AV permit, no DMV program, and no application; approval from the Colorado State Patrol and CDOT is required only for systems that cannot yet comply. SB 17-213 also bars any state agency or political subdivision from setting standards for an automated driving system different from those set for a human driver (C.R.S. 42-4-110(6)), so Denver, Arvada and Highlands Ranch cannot impose robotaxi-specific operating rules of their own. The framework has been defended twice: the governor vetoed automated commercial-vehicle bills in May 2025 and May 2026, leaving the statute untouched. In Colorado the constraint is geography, not law.

Is there a DockDuty depot in Denver?

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. Colorado is a strong candidate on the merits: a permit-free statute, a live Waymo rollout, and the highest EV adoption in the country at 32.4% of new vehicle sales in Q3 2025. Registering Denver interest directly shapes where we build next.

Can I own a Cybercab from Colorado before a Denver 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 Denver, CO 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.

The line will move. Ownership doesn’t have to wait for it.

Reserve a Priority stall today, elect Denver 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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