Nashville already split the car from the depot. Own the car half.
Every other city we write about, we have to argue that somebody other than the carmaker can run the building where robotaxis sleep, charge and get cleaned. Nashville doesn’t need the argument — it has an address. Flexdrive by Lyft is putting up an 80,000-square-foot depot off Elm Hill Pike, purpose-built to service, charge and maintain a Waymo fleet that Lyft doesn’t own and doesn’t drive. The car layer and the dock layer are already two different companies here. This page is the honest version of how Nashville buyers get onto the ownership side of that split.
The honest status: no DockDuty depot in Nashville 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.
Nashville has live service, a permit-free statute, and a working example of the depot layer running as its own business. What decides it is owner demand we can point to — exactly what the list further down this page is.
Founder spots are open — from Nashville, today
One founding book of 50 stalls, network-wide. Reserve for $450 — fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded — elect Nashville, TN in the flow, and your car earns at depot #1 the day it arrives.
You don’t have to wait for a Nashville 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 Nashville on the same dashboard our founding owners use today.
- Elect Nashville, TN 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 Nashville, updated as markets open and free for anyone to cite.
The Nashville 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 Tennessee 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 Nashville, TN as your preferred market in the flow.
The two-layer city: what Nashville proves
The rider side first, precisely. Waymo began fully driverless testing here on February 9, 2026, opened public service by invitation on April 7 across roughly 60 square miles — downtown, Broadway, 12 South, Midtown, East Nashville, Germantown, Music Row — and dropped the waitlist on June 25, 2026: anyone in Nashville can download the Waymo app and hail a ride, no invite code. Two details most coverage gets wrong: rides are hailed through the Waymo app — dispatch through the Lyft app is announced for later, not live — and the airport isn’t served yet. BNA just posted a record 26.7 million passengers in the fiscal year ending June 2026, and Waymo is still only testing there. The busiest travel corridor in the metro is the one robotaxis can’t serve yet.
Now the layer this company cares about. To run that fleet, Waymo didn’t build a Nashville garage — it partnered with Lyft, whose Flexdrive unit announced an 80,000-square-foot depot purpose-built to service, charge and maintain Waymo’s autonomous vehicles at scale, sited off Elm Hill Pike beside the airport, with more than 70 new full-time positions — about half of the roles filled so far going to current or former Lyft drivers, trading the driver’s seat for the service bay. Fleet operations are outsourced in several Waymo metros; what makes Nashville the clearest case in the country is a consumer brand doing it under its own name, in a purpose-built building, with a public headcount. The depot is a business of its own here — this is what that business does — and DockDuty is the version of it where the car is yours.
One more Nashville detail worth watching, reported and unconfirmed: the Nashville Scene reported on August 11, 2026 that upwards of 25 Cybercabs have been parked at the Dover Centre in Cool Springs, with Tesla not commenting on why. We treat that as a supply-side signal, nothing more. The car individual owners will put on a network has no public order book yet — that’s the window, and electing Nashville in the reserve flow is the clearest signal we get about where the network goes after Florida.
Frequently asked questions
Can anyone ride a Waymo in Nashville?
Yes. Waymo removed its Nashville waitlist on June 25, 2026 — in the company’s words, starting that day anyone in Nashville can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride, no invite code required. The service opened to the public by invitation on April 7, 2026 across roughly 60 square miles covering downtown, Broadway, 12 South, Midtown, East Nashville, Germantown and Music Row, after fully driverless testing began February 9, 2026. Two precise caveats: rides are hailed through the Waymo app — dispatch through the Lyft app is announced but not live — and the airport is not served yet; Waymo is testing at BNA with hopes to serve travelers there.
Who runs the depot behind Nashville’s Waymo fleet?
Not the company that built the cars. Flexdrive by Lyft is putting up an 80,000-square-foot depot purpose-built to service, charge and maintain Waymo’s autonomous vehicles at scale, off Elm Hill Pike near Nashville International Airport, announced April 15, 2026 with more than 70 new full-time positions — about half of the roles filled so far went to current or former Lyft drivers. Fleet operations for AVs are outsourced in several metros; what makes Nashville stand out is a consumer mobility brand doing it under its own name in a purpose-built building with a public headcount. The car layer and the dock layer are two different companies here, which is exactly the split DockDuty is built on — ours is the version where the car is yours.
Does Tennessee law allow robotaxis?
Yes, since 2017, and with strikingly little process. Tennessee’s Automated Vehicles Act (2017, codified at Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 55-30-101 through 55-30-108) permits a vehicle to operate with no human driver if the system can comply with traffic law, can reach a minimal risk condition on failure, and is registered as ADS-operated. There is no state permit: a motor vehicle manufacturer self-certifies by notifying the state, naming its operating areas — which is why an owner-supplied Cybercab would ride inside the manufacturer’s own program. The Act also preempts local rules, so Metro Nashville, Franklin and Williamson County cannot write their own robotaxi ordinances. The open question for a Tennessee Cybercab owner is not the statute — it is when Tesla opens owner participation. Where other states fall is answered state by state here.
Is there a DockDuty depot in Nashville?
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. Nashville has live service, a permit-free statute, and a working example of the depot layer operating as its own business. Registering Nashville interest directly shapes where we build next.
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.
Nashville proved the depot is its own business. Own the car half.
Reserve a network stall for $450 — fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. Elect Nashville 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.