LA already rides driverless. Get on the ownership side.
Los Angeles is one of the roughly eleven US metros where Waymo runs driverless service today (August 2026), and it’s one of the largest rideshare markets in the country, which makes it the biggest prize on the robotaxi map. Tesla’s network doesn’t run in LA yet; when the Cybercab market opens in California, this is the metro everyone will be racing to. If you want to be on the ownership side of that wave, this page is the honest version of how that works with DockDuty today.
The honest status: no Los Angeles depot yet
Where DockDuty stands · September 2026
Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026; the founding book (50 stalls, network-wide) sold out September 5, 2026. Capacity that opens next sells at Priority rates.
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 a metro the size of Los Angeles, already riding driverless with Waymo, is exactly what that expansion points at.
Where we build next 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles
- 1 reserved (as of live count).
- 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 Los Angeles
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 Los Angeles reservations to support a depot.
- Waymo runs driverless in Los Angeles today, so the service test is already met.
- Tesla’s network does not run in LA yet; the Cybercab market opening in California is the other trigger.
- What a Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles?
Stall reservations naming Los Angeles: 1 (as of live count).
DockDuty publishes the current count of stall reservations naming Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles?
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 Los Angeles?
Yes. Use the site form on the DockDuty Network page and name Los Angeles. A Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles
Every stall sells at our Priority rates with a $450 refundable deposit, in every metro we list. Reserve a Priority stall, elect Los Angeles, CA in the flow, and your spot is a Priority spot this round.
You don't have to wait for an LA 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 Los Angeles on the same dashboard our founding clients use today.
- Elect Los Angeles, CA 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 Los Angeles, updated as markets open and free for anyone to cite.
The Los Angeles list
Where we build next is a demand question, and this list is the demand. Join it and two things happen: you get one email if a California depot moves from roadmap to real, and your interest is counted when we pick the next metro. No drip sequence, and one-click unsubscribe.
Stalls are open in Los Angeles, CA right now, become a Priority client for $450 per cab, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded.
Why Los Angeles matters to a depot company
LA is the biggest prize on the map, and it isn’t close: one of the largest rideshare markets in the US, spread across a metro built on freeway distances that keep ride fleets earning all day, and it already rides driverless, with Waymo operating service here today (one of its 15 US metros as of October 1, 2026). Every driverless car in that metro 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 LA buyers should know: today’s Los Angeles robotaxis are Waymo’s own fleet, Tesla’s network doesn’t operate in LA yet (as of August 2026), and the Cybercab (the car individual owners will put on the network) has no public order book yet. That’s the window: when the Cybercab market opens in California, the people who reserved early and elected LA are first in line. How the two networks compare: Waymo vs. Tesla robotaxi. (California buyer up north instead? There’s a page for the Bay Area too.) And how to be ready on day one: can you buy a Tesla Cybercab?
Is there a robotaxi depot in Los Angeles?
Not a DockDuty one: DockDuty has no depot in Los Angeles and has not announced one. DockDuty collects Los Angeles owner reservations as demand, not as a commitment; the status of every market is on the DockDuty Network page. Waymo, which runs the driverless rides here, already charges its Los Angeles fleet at several sites in West Los Angeles, Inglewood and Santa Monica, at least two of them run by other companies.
What the public record shows, site by site, with the source on each line. The first two sites are also rows in the US robotaxi depot database, where they sit beside every other US robotaxi facility we can source.
- Waymo’s main Los Angeles depot, Sawtelle (operating). Autonomy Central, an independent site that filmed each location from public property, called it “the very first depot in LA” and counted 8 chargers outside, possibly more inside, plus warehouse space and deep cleaning (Autonomy Central, December 12, 2024). The same survey listed two smaller charging spots: a rooftop above a CVS with 8 EVgo-branded chargers reserved for Waymo, and a parking lot with 6 close to the main depot. None of this comes from Waymo, so read the counts as a snapshot from that date.
- Terawatt’s fleet charging site, Inglewood (operating). Terawatt opened it in October 2024 “three miles from Los Angeles International Airport in Inglewood”, with 29 DC fast chargers (Terawatt, October 9, 2024). Its announcement names no customer. The same Autonomy Central survey found Waymo cars there that December in a facility owned and operated by Terawatt, and trade press has since described Terawatt as a company that “counts autonomous taxi firm Waymo as a customer” (EV Infrastructure News, June 30, 2026). That is a third-party robotaxi depot operator at work: a charging company owns and runs the site, and the robotaxi company brings the cars.
- Two charging lots on Broadway, Santa Monica (in court). In November 2024 Waymo began charging cars for its Los Angeles service at 1222 and 1310 Broadway, two lots “run by charging company Voltera Power”. Residents reported reverse beeping, humming, late-night worker noise and flashing lights, and in November 2025 the Santa Monica City Council voted 6-0 to declare the lots a public nuisance and order overnight operations shut down (Santa Monica Daily Press, September 15, 2026). A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge then barred the lots from operating between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. in an order issued July 27, 2026 (Santa Monica Daily Press, July 29, 2026), and on appeal that injunction was stayed while the appeal is decided (Santa Monica Daily Press, September 15, 2026). Both lots are in the depot database.
Robotaxis in Los Angeles: what is live and what is only announced
As of October 1, 2026, Waymo is the only company we can document giving the public driverless rides in Los Angeles. Zoox is mapping and testing for a later launch, and Tesla runs no service here. Here is each operator’s record:
- Waymo: open to everyone since November 12, 2024. “Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides 24/7 with Waymo One,” Waymo wrote that day, after nearly 300,000 people had joined its waitlist, with a service area of nearly 80 square miles of LA County (Waymo, November 12, 2024). In June 2025 the area grew to more than 120 square miles, adding Playa del Rey, Ladera Heights, Echo Park, Silver Lake and the full length of Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles Magazine, June 18, 2025). By August 20, 2026, Waymo was letting every rider in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix hail its new Ojai van (Electrek, August 20, 2026).
- Zoox: mapping and testing, not carrying riders here. Zoox put a small fleet of manually driven, retrofitted Toyota Highlanders on Los Angeles streets in April 2025 “to gather mapping data ahead of broader autonomous testing in LA” (TechCrunch, April 8, 2025). Under a partnership announced March 11, 2026, its purpose-built robotaxis are to be available on Uber’s app “in Las Vegas this year, and Los Angeles next year” (TechCrunch, March 11, 2026). On the California DMV’s driverless-testing list, updated April 3, 2026, the approved locations for Zoox are Foster City and San Francisco (California DMV).
- Tesla: no Robotaxi service in Los Angeles. Tesla’s July 22, 2026 shareholder update lists a single California metro, the SF Bay Area, with the status “Safety Driver” under a California charter-party carrier permit (Tesla Q2 2026 update, as filed with the SEC). On the DMV’s lists, Tesla Robotaxi LLC appears only among companies allowed to test with a safety driver (list as of September 17, 2026), not on the driverless-testing or deployment lists (California DMV). We have found no Tesla announcement of Robotaxi rides in Los Angeles as of October 1, 2026.
What that means for a would-be Cybercab owner in Los Angeles. The cars carrying riders here belong to the company running them, and Tesla’s own first responder guide for its Robotaxi service, version 1.5 dated September 3, 2026, states: “All Robotaxi vehicles are owned and operated by Tesla at this time” (Tesla, Robotaxi First Responder Interaction Plan). In California a second wait sits on top of the first: before any network could run privately owned cars here with nobody at the wheel, it would need the state permits described below, and Tesla holds only the first of them. Tesla has not published owner-program terms, so DockDuty counts a Los Angeles reservation as demand for this metro, not as a plan to build here.
California’s robotaxi rules: two regulators and a permit ladder
California splits a robotaxi service between two agencies. The DMV decides whether a car may drive itself on public roads, in three steps: testing with a safety driver, testing with nobody behind the wheel, and deployment. Its deployment list, dated November 21, 2025, names three companies: Mercedes-Benz, Nuro and Waymo (California DMV, permit holders). The California Public Utilities Commission then decides who may carry passengers, and a company in its deployment programs “must obtain an Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Permit” from the DMV first (CPUC, autonomous vehicle programs). For Los Angeles, state regulators approved Waymo’s expansion here on March 1, 2024 (NBC Bay Area, March 1, 2024), and in June 2024 the CPUC upheld that approval over protests from local officials (GovTech, June 21, 2024).
Since July 1, 2026, state law has also set rules for how driverless cars handle emergencies. Vehicle Code §38751, added by AB 1777, requires a company running cars with no human operator on board to staff an emergency line where calls are “picked up within 30 seconds” by a remote operator, and to direct its fleet out of an area within two minutes of an emergency geofencing message from police, dispatchers or other first responders (AB 1777, as chaptered). California’s ladder sits beside the open-tier states on robotaxi laws by state, and the Nevada rules that cover Las Vegas are on the Las Vegas page. This is a summary, not legal advice.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a DockDuty depot in Los Angeles?
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 Los Angeles, the biggest rideshare market on the map and already riding driverless with Waymo, is exactly the kind of metro that expansion points at. Registering LA interest directly shapes where we build next.
Can I own a Cybercab from Los Angeles before an LA 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 Los Angeles, CA 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.
LA is already driverless. Own the next wave.
Reserve a Priority stall today, elect Los Angeles 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.