Jacksonville’s robotaxi law is already live. The cars come next.
No robotaxi runs in Jacksonville today, no operator has announced one, and we won’t pretend otherwise. What Jacksonville has is the law: Florida Statutes §316.85 (the most permissive AV statute in the country) applies statewide, and it’s the same framework that had Waymo carrying Miami and Orlando riders by early 2026, and let Tesla switch on driverless service in Miami, Orlando, and Tampa inside a single July. When the service area expands inside Florida, Jacksonville is the obvious next lane. This page is the honest version of how ownership works with DockDuty today.
The honest status: no Jacksonville depot yet
Where DockDuty stands · September 2026
Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026. There is no DockDuty depot in Jacksonville, and we’re not going to imply one is under construction.
We are planning locations in several more metros at the same time, including depots in Miami and Tampa Bay. Jacksonville is the fourth Florida metro named in our reserve flow, which makes it a natural next question.
When Jacksonville moves from named market to construction is shaped by demand we can point to. That’s exactly what the list at the bottom of this page is.
Market statusDemand open
Where Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville
- No stall reservations name Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville
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 Jacksonville reservations to support a depot. Jacksonville is one of the Florida metros named in the reserve flow, with Orlando, Miami and Tampa Bay.
- A driverless service carrying paying riders in Jacksonville. None runs today and no operator has announced one.
- Florida’s autonomous-vehicle law already applies statewide, so the legal test is met.
- What a Jacksonville 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
See every market’s status, the order book and the dataset this number comes from.
How many stall reservations name Jacksonville?
None yet (as of live count).
DockDuty publishes the current count of stall reservations naming Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville?
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 Jacksonville?
Yes. Use the site form on the DockDuty Network page and name Jacksonville. A Jacksonville 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.
Priority stalls are open from Jacksonville
Every stall sells at our Priority rates with a $450 refundable deposit, in every metro we list. Reserve a Priority stall, elect Jacksonville, FL in the flow, and your spot is a Priority spot this round.
You don't have to wait for a Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville on the same dashboard our founding clients use today.
- Elect Jacksonville, FL 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.
Jacksonville has no live robotaxi service yet. We track every market that does on the US Robotaxi Map, updated as markets open and free for anyone to cite.
The Jacksonville list
When Jacksonville moves from named market to construction is a demand question, and this list is the demand. Join it and two things happen: you get one email if a Jacksonville depot moves from roadmap to real, and your interest is counted when we sequence the Florida builds. No drip sequence, and one-click unsubscribe.
Stalls are open in Jacksonville, FL right now, become a Priority client for $450 per cab, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded.
Why Jacksonville matters to a depot company
Jacksonville’s case isn’t an operator announcement. There isn’t one, and we won’t invent it. Its case is structural. Florida Statutes §316.85 requires no human operator, no special state permit, and preempts local rules statewide: the most permissive AV law in the country, and it already covers Jacksonville, today. There is no council vote or city permit standing between Jacksonville and driverless service; the only missing piece is an operator flipping it on. The full breakdown: Florida’s robotaxi law, explained.
That statewide framework is why Florida flipped fast: Waymo opened Miami and Orlando to every rider by April 2026, and Tesla turned on Miami, Orlando, and Tampa inside a single July, no per-city fight required. Jacksonville isn’t on the dated map of live robotaxi metros yet, but it sits inside the one state where expansion needs no new permission. Every car that eventually works this metro will need charging, cleaning, and a stall between rides, the layer DockDuty is building. The primer: what a robotaxi depot actually does.
One thing Jacksonville buyers should know: 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. (Florida buyer closer to a live metro? Our Orlando depot is planned, and Tampa, driverless since July 21, 2026, has its own page.)
Is there a robotaxi depot in Jacksonville?
Not a DockDuty one: DockDuty has no depot in Jacksonville and has not announced one. DockDuty collects Jacksonville owner reservations as demand, not as a commitment; the status of every market is on the DockDuty Network page. No robotaxi company has published a depot location in Jacksonville as of October 1, 2026. The city does have an autonomous vehicle base, but it serves JTA’s downtown shuttles, not robotaxis.
Jacksonville has no row in the US robotaxi depot database as of October 1, 2026. Two autonomous-vehicle sites are on the public record, and neither is for robotaxis:
- JTA Autonomous Innovation Center, 650 W. Bay Street (operating, transit shuttles only). The Jacksonville Transportation Authority opened it on April 17, 2025 as “the command center facility to store, service, monitor, and maintain” its autonomous fleet: a two-story, 18,798 square foot building in LaVilla with maintenance bays and covered parking with charging stations. Beep, JTA’s partner, powers both the vehicles and the command center operations (JTA, April 17, 2025). It was built for a public transit fleet, not for ride-hail cars.
- Holon’s planned shuttle factory (not built). Holon, the Germany-based maker of the Mover autonomous shuttle, plans a production plant at the Eastport Exchange industrial park, 10145 Eastport Road. Records provided to the Jacksonville Daily Record show it still intends to break ground in 2026 and received a one-year extension to its economic development agreement with the city (Jacksonville Daily Record, via Jacksonville Today, July 2, 2026). It is a factory, not a depot.
Robotaxis in Jacksonville: what is live and what is only announced
As of October 1, 2026, nobody offers robotaxi rides in Jacksonville. What runs downtown is an autonomous shuttle, which works differently: a transit agency runs it on one fixed corridor with set stops and an attendant aboard, rather than sending a car to any address a rider picks. Here is what is on the record:
- JTA’s NAVI shuttle: in service since June 30, 2025. NAVI, short for Neighborhood Autonomous Vehicle Innovation, runs along the 3.5-mile Bay Street Innovation Corridor from Pearl Street to EverBank Stadium, stopping at 12 stations. It launched with 14 electric Ford E-Transit vans using Oxa’s automated driving system (JTA, June 27, 2025). JTA’s service page says all 14 vehicles are equipped with a service attendant (JTA, read October 1, 2026). JTA has said it plans to add Holon shuttles “as early as 2027” (JTA, June 27, 2025).
- Waymo: Jacksonville is not on its list. Waymo’s city page, read October 1, 2026, names Miami, Orlando and Tampa among the cities it serves, and Jacksonville appears neither there nor under “Up Next” (Waymo, read October 1, 2026). On February 27, 2026, City Council member Rory Diamond told News4JAX he wanted Jacksonville to be next and would do everything he could to bring Waymo here (News4JAX, February 27, 2026).
- Tesla: nothing announced for Jacksonville. The “Announced Robotaxi Coverage” table in Tesla’s Q2 2026 shareholder update lists three Florida metros, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, each as “Ramping Unsupervised”, and Jacksonville is not among them (Tesla Q2 2026 update, as filed with the SEC).
Why the difference matters to an owner. NAVI is a service run by a public transit agency, and Tesla’s Robotaxi cars in Miami, Orlando and Tampa are Tesla’s own: its 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). Tesla has not published owner-program terms. DockDuty counts a Jacksonville reservation as demand for this metro, not as a plan or a date for a depot here.
Florida’s robotaxi law, read from Jacksonville
One statute settles the operating questions. A licensed human operator is not required, and a fully autonomous vehicle “may operate in this state regardless of whether a human operator is physically present in the vehicle” (Fla. Stat. §316.85(1) and (2)). A driverless ride-hail network operates under the state’s transportation network company rules in §627.748 and must meet the insurance requirements in §627.749 (§316.85(4)). And a local government “may not impose any tax, fee, for-hire vehicle requirement, or other requirement” on autonomous vehicles or on the people who operate them, including for passenger service (§316.85(6)). That is why no city permit stands between Jacksonville and a robotaxi service. The full breakdown: Florida’s robotaxi law, explained.
Two limits matter locally. The same subsection lets airports and seaports charge reasonable fees and designate locations for staging and pickup (§316.85(6)), so a robotaxi working Jacksonville’s airport or port would still follow their rules. And §316.85 says nothing about zoning or land use: where a depot can go in Duval County remains an ordinary local land-use decision. How Florida compares with every other state is on robotaxi laws by state. None of this is legal advice.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a DockDuty depot in Jacksonville?
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. Jacksonville is the fourth Florida metro named in our reserve flow, and registering interest here directly shapes where we build next.
Can I own a Cybercab from Jacksonville before a Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville, FL 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 law is live in Jacksonville. Get in the next lane.
Reserve a Priority stall today, elect Jacksonville 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.
When the depot opens, owners drop off the car and get monthly statements.