Houston already runs driverless. Own the next wave, from Houston.

Houston is one of the six US metros where Tesla’s robotaxis run unsupervised (per Tesla’s Q2 2026 update), and Waymo operates here too. Two networks, no waiting. If you live with driverless cars daily and want to be on the ownership side of them, this page is the honest version of how that works with DockDuty today.

The honest status: no Houston depot yet

Market statusDemand open

Where Houston 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 Houston

No stall reservations name Houston 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 Houston

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

What a Houston 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 Houston Offer a site in Houston

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

How many stall reservations name Houston?

None yet (as of October 15, 2026).

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

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 Houston?

Yes. Use the site form on the DockDuty Network page and name Houston. A Houston 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 Houston 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 Houston on the same dashboard our founding clients use today.
• Elect Houston, 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 Houston, updated as markets open and free for anyone to cite.

Why Houston matters to a depot company

Houston is a working robotaxi town twice over (Tesla unsupervised and Waymo both operate here) across the most sprawling major metro in America: two airports, the Medical Center, the Energy Corridor, and distances that keep a ride fleet earning all day. 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 Houston buyers should know: every robotaxi on Houston streets today belongs to the network that runs it: Tesla’s cars are Tesla’s, Waymo’s are Waymo’s, 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 Houston?

Not a DockDuty one, and none yet that takes in privately owned cars. Uber says it has secured a 50,000 square foot Houston depot and a charging pitstop for a robotaxi service expected in mid-2027. 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. Houston owner reservations are collected as demand, with no Houston location committed.

The Houston record, sourced line by line. Facilities with a documented location are also rows in the US robotaxi depot database, next to every other US site we can source.

• Uber’s Houston depot (announced, not operating). “Uber has secured a 50,000 sq ft Houston depot and additional pitstop to support future robotaxi fleet operations,” for a service built on the Lucid Gravity “equipped with the Nuro Driver”. In the same release: “The companies expect to launch the service in Houston in mid-2027 exclusively through the Uber network” (Uber, June 17, 2026). The address is not public. Uber adds that the vehicles “will be owned and operated by Uber and its fleet partners”, so whoever runs that building day to day, Uber or a partner, will be doing the job we describe as a robotaxi depot operator.
• Waymo in Houston (site not published). Waymo has carried public riders here since February 2026, but we have not found a published Houston depot address or a named fleet-operations partner, so the database has no Houston Waymo row yet.
• Tesla in Houston (no hub filing found). The planned Tesla Robotaxi charging hubs Teslarati listed in August 2026 were in Phoenix, San Antonio, Irving and Las Vegas, besides Austin; Houston was not among them (Teslarati, August 18, 2026).

Who runs robotaxis in Houston right now?

Two services carry the public in Houston without a driver, by their own account, as of September 25, 2026, a third has a target year, and the city has hosted autonomous delivery and freight before either arrived. Dated:

• Waymo, since February 2026. The launch zone sat “within a portion of the I-610 loop, including downtown Houston, Midtown, Montrose, and the Houston Heights, totaling about 25 square miles” (Houston Public Media, February 24, 2026). In May Waymo announced it was growing that to “nearly 50 square miles”, opening “EaDo, the Texas Medical Center and parts of northeast Houston” plus NRG Stadium ahead of the World Cup (KPRC 2 Click2Houston, May 13, 2026). On August 20 the invite gate came down: “Starting today, anyone in Houston can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride,” after more than 100,000 riders from the interest list (Waymo, August 20, 2026).
• Tesla, since April 2026. Tesla Robotaxi announced the Houston and Dallas launches on its X account on Saturday, April 18 (Houston Innovation Map, April 21, 2026), and Tesla’s first-quarter shareholder update confirms it “launched unsupervised rides in both Dallas and Houston in April” (Tesla, April 22, 2026, as filed with the SEC). Houston reads “Ramping Unsupervised” in the July 22 update (Tesla Q2 2026 update).
• Uber with Nuro and Lucid, targeted for mid-2027. The depot is secured, per the June 17 release above; the service is not running yet.
• Nuro, before robotaxis. Domino’s announced April 12, 2021, with deliveries beginning that week, that some customers of its Woodland Heights store at 3209 Houston Ave. could choose delivery by Nuro’s R2, which the companies called “the first completely autonomous, occupantless on-road delivery vehicle with a regulatory approval by the U.S. Department of Transportation” (Domino’s and Nuro, April 12, 2021). Nuro’s software is the driver in Uber’s planned Houston robotaxis.
• Aurora, driverless freight on the Houston to Dallas run. “Aurora began regular driverless customer deliveries between Dallas and Houston” in the week of May 1, 2025, using heavy-duty trucks (Aurora, May 1, 2025, as filed with the SEC). Freight rather than passengers, under the same state law.

What a Houston owner should take from that. Houston now has two driverless networks, a third on the way and a 50,000 square foot depot already secured, and still no privately owned car in any of them. Tesla’s first responder guide, 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), and Uber’s 2027 cars are to belong to Uber and its fleet partners. An individual’s Cybercab needs a network that accepts it before it can earn anywhere, and Tesla has not published owner-program terms. The Houston list on this page is how that demand gets counted in the meantime.

Can Houston regulate robotaxis on its own?

No, and that is a state choice rather than a city one. As amended in 2025 by SB 2807, Texas Transportation Code §545.452(b) says: “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). Oversight sits with the state instead, and since May 28, 2026 companies running automated vehicles commercially “are required to maintain an active authorization with TxDMV” (Texas Department of Motor Vehicles). Phoenix sits under a different model: Arizona operators self-certify, filing a law enforcement interaction plan with ADOT and the Department of Public Safety plus a written statement to ADOT before any car drives without a human (A.R.S. §28-9702(C)). Both are laid out 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 Houston?

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 Houston, is an obvious cluster. Registering Houston interest directly shapes where we build next.

Can I own a Cybercab from Houston before a Houston 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 Houston, 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 Houston-specific version of this question, how much can a robotaxi make in Houston?, covering which networks actually run here and what that does to the answer.

Houston runs driverless today. Own the next wave.

Reserve a Priority stall today, elect Houston 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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