Denver’s robotaxi map has an edge. Most of the metro is outside it.
Waymo announced rider-only Denver operations on July 8, 2026, and by late August its cars had been driving employees driverless for more than a month — with the public opening expected soon and no date committed. 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
Where DockDuty stands · August 2026
Depot #1 is targeted to open in Greater Orlando in Q4 2026 — one founding book of 50 stalls, network-wide, and the reservations in it come from all over the map.
Our published roadmap is Florida-first: Miami breaks ground when Orlando is ~80% reserved and operating, Tampa follows the same trigger — potentially in parallel. From there we expand wherever the Cybercab market opens.
Colorado makes a strong case on the merits — a permit-free statute, a live Waymo rollout, and the country’s highest EV adoption. What decides Denver is owner demand we can point to. That’s exactly what the list further down this page is.
Founder spots are open — from Colorado, today
One founding book of 50 stalls, network-wide. Reserve for $450 — fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded — elect Denver, CO in the flow, and your car earns at depot #1 the day it arrives.
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 stall today — $450, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee.
- Your car earns at depot #1 in Greater Orlando. We park, charge, clean, and dispatch; you watch it from Arvada or Highlands Ranch on the same dashboard our founding owners 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.
The Denver 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 Colorado depot moves from roadmap to real, and your interest is counted when we pick the next metro. No drip sequence, and one-click unsubscribe.
Already sure? You can skip the list and reserve a network stall now — elect Denver, CO as your preferred market in the flow.
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. The car earns at the depot, not at your address — 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 rollout is Waymo’s own fleet — a couple dozen of its new Ojai vehicles 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 after Florida.
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. As of late August 2026 the service itself was still rider-only for Waymo employees, with the public opening expected soon and no date committed. If you are looking at this as an owner rather than a rider, the line matters less than you would think, because the car earns at the depot and not at your address.
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. Depot #1 is targeted to open in Greater Orlando in Q4 2026, and our published roadmap is Florida-first (Miami on the ~80% trigger, Tampa following). From there 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. Reserve a stall today ($450, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded), your car earns at depot #1 in Greater Orlando, and you watch it from Arvada or Highlands Ranch. 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 network stall for $450 — fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. Elect Denver as your preferred market in the flow.
Own from anywhere — the car earns at the depot. You don't have to live in Florida, or even in the US.