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. Lyft says its Flexdrive unit cut the ribbon on an 80,000-square-foot depot near the airport on October 2, 2026, purpose-built to service, charge and maintain a Waymo fleet that Lyft doesn’t own and doesn’t drive, and that Waymo vehicles arrive on October 12. 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 · 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, with reservations from all over the map. 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.
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.
Market statusDemand open
Where Nashville 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 Nashville
- No stall reservations name Nashville 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 Nashville
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 Nashville reservations to support a depot.
- Service and law are already in place: Waymo has been open to every rider since June 25, 2026, under a permit-free statute.
- The depot layer already runs as its own business here: Flexdrive by Lyft has a depot to service a Waymo fleet it does not own; Lyft says it cut the ribbon on October 2, 2026 and that Waymo vehicles arrive October 12.
- What a Nashville 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 Nashville?
None yet (as of live count).
DockDuty publishes the current count of stall reservations naming Nashville 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 Nashville?
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 Nashville?
Yes. Use the site form on the DockDuty Network page and name Nashville. A Nashville 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 Nashville
Every stall sells at our Priority rates with a $450 refundable deposit, in every metro we list. Reserve a Priority stall, elect Nashville, TN in the flow, and your spot is a Priority spot this round.
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 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 Nashville on the same dashboard our founding clients 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 next 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.
Stalls are open in Nashville, TN right now, become a Priority client for $450 per cab, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded.
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 worth knowing: since September 9, 2026, Lyft riders in central Nashville can also be matched with a Waymo, with availability growing gradually (Lyft), 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 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.
The Waymo depot in Nashville, dated. In a September 9, 2026 release, Lyft said its subsidiary Flexdrive is providing fleet management for Waymo in Nashville and will open a purpose-built, 80,000-square-foot depot in October, bringing more than 70 new full-time roles this year. The same release made Nashville the first market where Waymo rides are available in both the Waymo and Lyft apps (Lyft, September 9, 2026). Lyft’s Flexdrive cut the ribbon on the depot on October 2, 2026, and Lyft says Waymo vehicles arrive on October 12 (Lyft, October 2, 2026).
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 next.
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: since September 9, 2026, Lyft riders in central Nashville can also be matched with a Waymo, with availability growing gradually (Lyft), 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 cut the ribbon on an 80,000-square-foot depot purpose-built to service, charge and maintain Waymo’s autonomous vehicles at scale, near Nashville International Airport, on October 2, 2026 (announced April 15, 2026; Lyft says Waymo vehicles arrive October 12), 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. 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. 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 Priority stall today, elect Nashville 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.