Michigan wrote the law first. Detroit rides next.
Michigan has permitted automated vehicles on public roads since 2016, with no requirement that a person sit in the car — one of the most permissive frameworks in the country. Waymo has announced Detroit for before the end of 2026. If you live in Ann Arbor or metro Detroit, the interesting question isn’t whether the law will allow this. It’s who ends up owning the vehicles, and this page is the honest version of how Michigan buyers get on that side of it with DockDuty today.
The honest status: no Detroit 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.
Michigan is an unusual case on that map, because the part most states are still arguing about is already settled here. What decides Detroit is service arriving and demand we can point to. That’s exactly what the list further down this page is.
Founder spots are open — from Michigan, today
One founding book of 50 stalls, network-wide. Reserve for $450 — fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded — elect Detroit, MI in the flow, and your car earns at depot #1 the day it arrives.
You don't have to wait for a Detroit dock
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 Ann Arbor or Detroit on the same dashboard our founding owners use today.
- Elect Detroit, MI as your preferred market right in the reservation flow — when the network reaches your city, your preference is already on file.
There’s a second reason not to wait. Founding rates are $450, $400, $375 and $350 per stall per month at 1–2, 3–4, 5–6 and 7+ cabs, they’re written into the agreement you sign, and a later amendment can’t take them away. Capacity that opens after the 50-stall founding book fills goes at our standard schedule instead — $550, $525, $500 and $475. If you’re thinking about more than one car, that difference is the whole argument. The full comparison is on the homepage.
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 Detroit, updated as markets open and free for anyone to cite.
The Detroit 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 Michigan 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 Detroit, MI as your preferred market in the flow.
What about Hamtramck, Highland Park, and the other suburbs?
People in metro Detroit have been searching this by town for months, so here is the straight version. No robotaxi serves any of them today. Not Hamtramck or Highland Park, the two independent cities that sit entirely inside Detroit’s footprint (they border each other, and Detroit wraps around everything else), and not Hazel Park, Eastpointe, Oak Park, Ferndale, Royal Oak, Dearborn or Ann Arbor either. Waymo is already testing on metro Detroit streets with trained specialists at the wheel, public service is announced for before the end of 2026, and no launch zone has been published.
What the other metros tell you is the shape to expect rather than the date. Service opens as a geofenced core and widens in steps; it doesn’t cover a metro all at once. Tesla launched Orlando on the airport corridor in July 2026, and the northern suburbs there are still outside the boundary six weeks later. Applied to Detroit, that means a dense core first and the ring cities after, in an order nobody has announced.
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, your suburb matters much less than you’d think. The car earns at the depot, not at your address, so a Hamtramck owner and a Royal Oak owner have exactly the same economics.
Why Michigan matters to a depot company
Most metros we write about got their driverless service before their legislature finished arguing. Michigan did it the other way around. The 2016 package permits automated vehicles on public roads with nobody inside, and creates a path for on-demand self-driving networks where the vehicles are supplied or controlled by a motor vehicle manufacturer. That last clause is worth reading twice if you plan to own a Cybercab here: the gate in Michigan isn’t the statute, it’s the manufacturer’s own owner program. We track that question on the Cybercab page, dated fact by dated fact.
The engineering has been here even longer. Ann Arbor has run Mcity at the University of Michigan since 2015, the first purpose-built proving ground for connected and automated vehicles, and the American Center for Mobility sits on the old Willow Run site in Ypsilanti. Detroit is where this industry keeps its engineers. What none of that infrastructure covers is the boring part after a vehicle is validated and sold: where it parks, charges, and gets cleaned between fares. That layer is what a robotaxi depot actually does, and it’s the layer DockDuty runs.
One thing Michigan buyers should know: Waymo’s announced Detroit service will be Waymo’s own fleet. The Cybercab — the car individual owners will put on a network — has no public order book yet. That’s the window, and electing Detroit in the reserve flow is the clearest signal we get about where the network goes after Florida. The dated map of every live robotaxi metro is where we keep score.
Frequently asked questions
Does a robotaxi serve Hamtramck, Hazel Park, or the other Detroit suburbs?
Not yet, and not anywhere else in metro Detroit either. Waymo is already testing on metro Detroit streets with trained specialists at the wheel and has announced public service for before the end of 2026, but it has not published a launch zone, so nobody can honestly tell you today whether Hamtramck, Highland Park, Hazel Park, Eastpointe, Oak Park, Ferndale, Royal Oak, Dearborn or Ann Arbor will be inside it. What the other metros show is the shape to expect: service opens as a geofenced core and widens in steps rather than covering a metro at once. Tesla launched Orlando on the airport corridor in July 2026 and the northern suburbs are still outside that boundary six weeks later. If you are looking at this as an owner rather than a rider, your suburb matters less than you would think, because the car earns at the depot and not at your address.
Does Michigan law allow robotaxis?
Yes, and it has for years. Michigan’s 2016 legislative package permits automated vehicles to operate on public roads and does not require a person to be inside the vehicle, which puts it among the most permissive states in the country. The same package created a path for on-demand self-driving networks, with the vehicles supplied or controlled by a motor vehicle manufacturer. So the open question for a Michigan Cybercab owner is not the statute. It is when Tesla opens owner participation and when service reaches the metro — Waymo has announced Detroit for before the end of 2026.
Is there a DockDuty depot in Detroit or Ann Arbor?
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. Michigan is unusual on that map because the legal work is already done, so what decides Detroit is service arriving and owner demand we can point to. Registering Detroit interest directly shapes where we build next.
Can I own a Cybercab from Michigan before a Detroit 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 Ann Arbor or Detroit. In the reservation flow you can elect Detroit, MI 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.
Michigan settled the law years ago. Own the next wave.
Reserve a network stall for $450 — fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. Elect Detroit 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.