An autonomous vehicle is not buying parking. It is joining an operation.
Five steps, from the first stall to the long-term vision. Each one says what exists today and what does not.
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01 · One depot
Start local.
A depot is the physical operating layer that keeps an autonomous vehicle available: somewhere to arrive, charge, get cleaned and inspected, and wait for the next dispatch. A driverless car still needs all of that done by someone.
Node One, in Orlando, is where DockDuty’s loop gets built and tested. In development
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02 · Several depots
Standardize the operation.
The second depot should not be a new invention. The plan is to write the operating procedure once (intake, charging windows, cleaning checklists, inspection points, incident escalation) and record every step in the same software, so each depot runs the same loop and reports the same way.
Miami and Tampa Bay are next on the published roadmap, with no site, lease or date. Designed for more than one site; not proven at any site until one is operating. Planned
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03 · One network
Connect the fleet.
An owner with vehicles in several markets should see them in one place: one dashboard, one statement format, one set of standards and one escalation path, whichever depot the car sleeps in.
The owner dashboard is live today, with a public demo. Live Running it across several depots would begin when a second depot opens. Planned
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04 · National infrastructure
Every new autonomous market needs an operating layer.
Wherever driverless service opens, the same physical needs follow: parking, power, charging, cleaning, inspection, maintenance, staging, incident response and people on the ground. None of it can be done from a head office. It has to exist locally, in every market.
That repeatable local need is the infrastructure thesis. Owners can already reserve and name 21 metros; the hollow rings are that demand, not depots. Demand, not depots
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05 · Long-term vision
Autonomous mobility will not stop at state lines. Neither should its operating infrastructure.
If privately owned autonomous fleets reach other countries, the model is designed to travel with them: a written operating standard, one software platform and a repeatable site specification.
That is a vision, not a plan. DockDuty has no market outside the United States planned today. Vision