How we research and update this site.

DockDuty writes about a market that does not fully exist yet. The Cybercab is not delivered, our Orlando depot (targeted for Q4 2026) is not built, and much of what gets published about robotaxi ownership is guesswork presented as fact. This page explains what we do to avoid adding to that, so you can judge our pages accordingly.

Who writes this

Articles are published under DockDuty Team unless a named founder byline appears on the page. The DockDuty Team byline means the piece was written and reviewed by co-founders Jeremy Hecht and David Hecht, who are the only people producing content here. Every economics and law page is reviewed by a founder before publication.

We will not invent credentials. None of the founders is a lawyer, an accountant, an insurance broker, or a licensed financial adviser, and nothing on this site is legal, tax, insurance, or investment advice. Where a decision turns on any of those, we say so and tell you to talk to someone licensed in your state.

The four labels we use

Almost every mistake in this category comes from blurring these together. We keep them apart:

• Confirmed fact. Something a primary source states directly, a statute, a regulatory filing, an official operator page, a company's own investor materials. We link the source itself, not an article about it.
• Reported but unconfirmed. Credible reporting we have not been able to verify against a primary source. Labelled as reported, with the outlet named.
• DockDuty target or assumption. Our own plan or an input we chose for a model. A target is a thing we are working toward, not a thing that has happened. Our Orlando launch is a target for Q4 2026: the site, lease, permitting, and vehicle-delivery arrangement are not secured.
• Projection. Arithmetic on assumptions. Every earnings figure on this site is a projection, never a promise, and the assumptions behind it are shown so you can disagree with them.

Sourcing

• Factual claims link to the exact primary source, the specific statute section, filing, or official page, rather than naming it in passing.
• We prefer Tesla's own investor materials and filings, NHTSA, state statutes and regulatory agencies, and official operator pages over secondary coverage.
• Numbers that move (service areas, fleet counts, live stall counts) carry the date they were checked, so a stale number is visibly stale rather than quietly wrong.
• The robotaxi city map is published with its underlying data as CSV and JSON so anyone can check our work instead of taking it on trust.

How the calculator model and the map are built

The earnings calculator is one model, shared with the homepage: fares scaled by utilisation from Tesla’s stated long-term operating-cost target, minus a Tesla network share you set (an assumption, capped at 30%), minus the published Priority retainer and service fee for your fleet size, minus insurance across the $400 to $800 planning band and financing. Every input and its source is listed on the page under What drives these numbers, and when the model changes the page says what changed and when. The robotaxi city map is built from operator announcements and public service pages, one row per metro with the date it was checked, and it ships its underlying data as CSV and JSON from the city table so anyone can check a row against its source.

What we will not publish

• Testimonials, case studies, press mentions, partnerships, or reviews that we cannot point at a real, named, permissioned source for.
• Earnings, utilization, or insurance figures presented as guaranteed.
• Any claim that DockDuty can sell, broker, allocate, or guarantee delivery of a Cybercab. Only Tesla sells the vehicle; the customer buys it and pays Tesla directly.
• Any suggestion that we are affiliated with Tesla, Inc. We are not.
• Attacks on competitors. We will describe what a category does and let readers compare.

Updating and corrections

Every article shows its original publication date and, where it has been revised, an updated date. We change the updated date only when the substance changes, fixing a typo is not an update, and we do not backdate or re-date pages to look fresh.

Pages covering fast-moving facts (service areas, regulation, delivery timing) are reviewed on a recurring schedule. When something we published turns out to be wrong, we correct the page rather than quietly deleting it, and we say what changed.

Found an error? Tell us at support@dockduty.com and point at the page. We would rather be corrected than be confidently wrong in public.

Report a correction

Corrections log

Substantive corrections, newest first. Typo fixes and link changes are not logged.

• 9 October 2026. The earnings calculator and two Cybercab buyer posts. The post on buying a Cybercab said Tesla’s Q2 2026 call was on August 5; it was on July 22, 2026, with the Q2 results. The post on owning a Cybercab as a fleet vehicle quoted Tesla’s fleet interest form as listing “future Cybercab fleet vehicle purchasing”; the form reads “Cybercab fleet vehicle purchasing”. The buying post said the earnings calculator lets you set rides per day and average fare; its inputs are utilization, Tesla’s network share, insurance, financing and fleet size. The calculator and both posts said our depot network would start in Orlando; they now say Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026, and that no depot is open yet. The buying post said a reserved stall would be in Orlando and the calculator said the car would be based there; a reservation attaches to the DockDuty network, not to one city.
• 5 October 2026. A review of stale facts on older pages. The Miami rider guide, the robotaxi map and the city tracker now give Waymo’s Miami area as about 150 square miles including Miami Beach and Bal Harbour, not about 60, and Tesla’s Miami zone as 30.8 square miles in late September. The rider guide no longer says that neither network serves South Beach. Where the rider guide and the tracker said Waymo had added highway routing in Miami, they now say its freeway rides were paused in May and that we have not confirmed they resumed in Miami. The Los Angeles page no longer implies driverless cars are on LA freeways today. Two Cybercab posts quoted Tesla’s fleet interest form as “Future Cybercab fleet vehicle purchasing” and a third paraphrased it as “future Cybercab fleet purchasing”; the form reads “Cybercab fleet vehicle purchasing”. Tesla’s Q2 2026 call was on July 22, 2026, not August 5. The Cybercab fare post called the Cybercab a choice in the app, and the two-seat post said Tesla had not explained how the app assigns cars; Tesla’s FAQ says the car assigned depends on availability and the number of riders.
• 22 September 2026. A site-wide review after Tesla’s September 3 event. The charging post no longer contradicts the depot page on how the Cybercab charges (DC only through a NACS port on the cars seen so far, no onboard AC charger). The transformer lead time quoted on the depot cost pages was corrected to 12 to 18 months. Pages that still described September 3 in the future tense, or carried an August check date on an availability question, were updated to the post-event record. The worked Cybercab P&L, which had been built on the founding rate schedule that closed on September 5, was rebuilt on the Priority rates with the founding numbers kept as a dated footnote.

Disclosure

DockDuty sells depot reservations, so we are not a neutral party. Our commercial interest is in people reserving a stall. That is exactly why the labels above matter: read our projections as projections, check our sources, and treat any number we publish about our own future as a target rather than a result. Pricing and reservation terms are on the pricing page and in the reservation agreement itself.

If you would rather check our work than take our word for it: the owner dashboard runs publicly with no login, the founding order book publishes a live stall count, and the earnings calculator shows every assumption it uses. Questions or corrections: support@dockduty.com.