DockDuty is building Orlando’s first robotaxi depot. Here is the honest state of it.
Driverless Teslas have carried paying passengers in Orlando since July 21, 2026. Orlando is DockDuty’s first market and the only market currently marked available in our own reservation flow. The depot is not open. This page tells you what exists today, what does not, what a stall costs, and exactly what you get back if it never opens — before you give us a dollar.
What DockDuty is
DockDuty is a robotaxi depot and fleet-operations company built to support privately owned autonomous vehicles. DockDuty is the brand operated by DOCK DUTY LLC, a Florida limited liability company (Florida Division of Corporations document no. L26000247958), founded in 2026 by Jeremy Hecht and David Hecht.
We are an independent company. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc. We hold no Tesla vehicle allocation, no enrollment right and no commercial agreement of any kind with Tesla, and we claim none. “Tesla” and “Cybercab” are trademarks of Tesla, Inc., used here for descriptive reference only.
What is live today, and what is not
Where DockDuty stands · September 2026
Live today, and you can check every one of these yourself:
- The owner dashboard — the real product, running on sample fleet data. No login, no card.
- Real vehicle telemetry from connected owner vehicles, streaming into that dashboard in production.
- The reservation system and live payment processing.
- The public order book, served by the same API that enforces the cap at checkout — so the number is auditable, not marketing.
- The full owner agreement, rendered and signable before you pay, not after.
- The earnings calculator and the US Robotaxi Map, free to use and free to cite.
Not live, and we will not pretend otherwise:
- The Orlando depot itself. It is targeted for Q4 2026. No depot lease has been executed. No site is built.
- Any customer vehicle at a DockDuty depot. Nothing is parked, charged, cleaned or dispatched by us today.
- Any customer earnings. No customer Cybercab has completed a paid ride on any network through DockDuty, and nobody has fleet-scale Cybercab earnings history — including us.
- Tesla’s owner program. Customer-owned vehicles cannot join Robotaxi today. Eligibility, onboarding, economics, insurance and timing have not been published by Tesla.
The founding class of 50 stalls closed on September 5, 2026. What sells now is the Priority Owner round.
Priority Owner stalls are open in Orlando
$450 per stall, fully refundable until your vehicle is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. Orlando is depot #1 — reserving here puts you in the first market, not a waiting list for one.
What a robotaxi depot actually does
A robotaxi depot is the physical operating base for a fleet of self-driving cars. A car with no driver still has all of a driver’s chores and nobody to do them. Between rides it needs somewhere to wait that is not a public curb, a charger, a clean interior, a look-over for damage and lost property, and someone to call when something goes wrong at 2am.
At the Orlando depot, DockDuty is being built to handle:
- Parking — an assigned, fenced stall, so the car is not circling or sitting on a street.
- Charging — on site, between shifts. Charging electricity is included in the monthly retainer, with no separate bill and no markup on energy. That is a term of the agreement, not a promotion.
- Cleaning and readiness — interior reset between rides, so the next rider does not find the last rider’s coffee cup.
- Staging — positioning the car where demand is about to be, rather than where it happened to finish.
- Dispatch coordination — the ride network dispatches the car; we make sure it is charged, clean and available when it does.
- Incident response — 24-hour cover for the things that do not respect business hours.
- Maintenance coordination — getting the car to service and back without the owner flying in.
- Owner visibility — a dashboard the owner can open at any hour from anywhere.
The longer primer is here: what a robotaxi depot actually does, and what makes a Cybercab depot different from a general robotaxi depot.
What the owner keeps, and what stays the owner’s job
A depot is a service, not a transfer. The split is written into the agreement rather than left to trust:
- You keep the title. Always. Section 4.3: the owner retains title to their vehicles at all times, and nothing in the agreement or any service agreement transfers any ownership interest in any vehicle to DockDuty.
- You buy the car. DockDuty does not sell vehicles, allocate them, or promise you one. The purchase price, taxes, registration, financing and any Tesla freight or delivery charges are yours.
- You carry the vehicle insurance. Commercial autonomous-vehicle insurance on the vehicle is the owner’s responsibility, through the owner’s own broker. DockDuty’s own facility coverage — garage-keeper, TNC contingent and general business liability — is intended to be bound before the depot takes in any vehicle. It is not bound today, because there is no depot yet.
- You decide when to leave. Month-to-month, no minimum term, no early-termination penalty.
What is refundable
The full US $450 per-stall deposit. Under section 3.1 of the reservation agreement it is refundable at the owner’s request at any time before the vehicle is onboarded, with no reason and no documentation required. DockDuty initiates the refund to the original payment method within five business days, with a wire or check fallback if that method has closed. If DockDuty announces it will not open any depot, or ceases operations, all outstanding deposits are refunded in full automatically within thirty days.
Two more protections that are in the paper and worth knowing before you pay. Deposits are held in a segregated account maintained solely for owner reservation deposits, separate from DockDuty’s operating funds, and DockDuty will confirm that arrangement in writing on request (§2.3). Be precise about what that is: it is a contractual commitment by DockDuty, not a third-party escrow with an independent agent holding the money. And if DockDuty is acquired or changes control, the owner may elect a full refund of outstanding deposits within thirty days of notice (§8.4) — you are not sold along with the company.
See the full owner-protection summary and the live order book →
How the Orlando rollout works
Orlando is depot #1, targeted for Q4 2026, and it gates everything after it. The published trigger is that the next depot breaks ground when the current one is roughly 80% reserved and operating — 5 to 10 stalls left of 50 — rather than at full saturation. Miami is the named second market on that trigger, Tampa follows on the same one, and expansion past Florida follows wherever the autonomous-vehicle service area opens next. Depots are organised in blocks of fifty vehicles, opened in order-book sequence as each fills, so a fleet owner is not capped by the size of any one depot.
None of that is a promise about a date. The agreement makes no commitment that a depot will open in any particular market or on any timeline, and says so in its own text. The owner’s protection is the refund right, and it is deliberately easier to use than anything else in the document.
What happens if the Cybercab owner program never launches
You take your deposit back. That is the whole answer, and it is worth saying plainly because it is the question everyone is actually asking.
Nothing DockDuty builds can make Tesla sell Cybercabs to third parties or publish owner-participation terms, and neither has happened. Tesla is simultaneously the supplier, the network and a potential competitor here. We disclose that dependency inside the contract itself, not only on the website. The agreement also sets an Outside Date of December 31, 2028: if your first vehicle has not been onboarded by then for reasons other than your own delay, you choose either a full refund or successive twelve-month extensions — your choice, not ours. DockDuty cannot use the Outside Date to cancel your position while you elect to extend.
Why Orlando
Florida’s autonomous-vehicle statutes place no ownership restriction on who may own a self-driving vehicle, and Fla. Stat. § 316.85 makes the automated driving system itself the operator. Driverless Teslas have carried paying passengers in Orlando since July 21, 2026, so the demand side of this market is demonstrated rather than assumed. Orlando also has what a depot physically needs: land at a price that works, power that can be scheduled, and tourism-driven ride density that keeps cars working across the whole day rather than two rush hours.
The plain-English version is here: why Florida became robotaxi country. For riders rather than owners, the local guide is Tesla robotaxi in Orlando — where it runs and what it costs.
The Orlando list
Not ready to reserve? Join the Orlando list. You get one email when depot #1 moves from plan to ground-break — that is it. No drip sequence, and one-click unsubscribe.
Or request a free Priority Reservation — no deposit, no card.
Frequently asked questions
Who operates a robotaxi depot for private owners in Orlando?
DockDuty — the brand operated by DOCK DUTY LLC, a Florida limited liability company — is building one, and Orlando is its first market. Important qualifier: the depot is not open. It is targeted for Q4 2026, no site lease has been executed, and no customer vehicle is parked, charged or earning at a DockDuty depot today. What is live today is the reservation system, the published owner agreement, the payment processing and the owner dashboard. DockDuty is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc.
Is the DockDuty Orlando depot open?
No. Depot #1 is targeted to open in Orlando in Q4 2026. As of today no depot lease has been executed and no site is built. The reservation agreement states this in its own recitals rather than burying it, and the reservation deposit is fully refundable at will until a vehicle is onboarded precisely because the opening is not guaranteed.
What does a robotaxi depot actually do?
It is the physical operating base for a fleet of self-driving cars. Between rides a robotaxi needs somewhere to park that is not a public curb, a charger, a clean interior, a look-over for damage and lost property, and someone to call when something goes wrong at 2am. A depot does that work: assigned parking, charging, cleaning and readiness, staging, dispatch coordination, incident response, maintenance coordination, and reporting back to the vehicle’s owner.
What is refundable if I reserve an Orlando stall?
The full US $450 per-stall deposit. Under section 3.1 of the reservation agreement it is refundable at the owner’s request at any time before the vehicle is onboarded, with no reason and no documentation required. DockDuty initiates the refund to the original payment method within five business days, with a wire or check fallback if that method has closed. If DockDuty announces it will not open any depot, or ceases operations, all outstanding deposits are refunded in full automatically within thirty days.
What happens if the Cybercab owner program never launches?
The owner takes the deposit back. Nothing in DockDuty’s product can make Tesla sell Cybercabs to third parties or publish owner-participation terms, and neither has happened. That dependency is disclosed inside the contract itself, not just on the website. The agreement also sets an Outside Date of December 31, 2028: if the owner’s first vehicle has not been onboarded by then for reasons other than the owner’s own delay, the owner chooses either a full refund or successive twelve-month extensions — the owner’s choice, not DockDuty’s.
Does DockDuty take ownership of my vehicle?
No. The owner retains title to their vehicles at all times, and section 4.3 states that nothing in the agreement or any service agreement transfers any ownership interest in any vehicle to DockDuty. Service is month-to-month with no minimum term and no early-termination penalty.
Is DockDuty affiliated with Tesla?
No. DockDuty is an independent company and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc. “Tesla” and “Cybercab” are trademarks of Tesla, Inc., used for descriptive reference only. DockDuty holds no Tesla vehicle allocation, no enrollment right and no commercial agreement of any kind with Tesla, and claims none.
Why is DockDuty starting in Orlando?
Florida’s autonomous-vehicle statutes place no ownership restriction on who may own a self-driving vehicle, and Fla. Stat. § 316.85 makes the automated driving system itself the operator. Driverless Teslas have carried paying passengers in Orlando since July 21, 2026, so the demand side is demonstrated rather than assumed. Orlando also has the land, the power and the tourism-driven ride density a depot needs, and it is the only market currently marked available in DockDuty’s own reservation flow.
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. Projections, not guarantees.
Orlando is depot #1. Reserve before it is built.
$450 per stall, fully refundable at will until your vehicle is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. You keep the title. Month-to-month, no early-termination penalty. If we never open, you get every dollar back.
Own from anywhere — the car earns at the depot. You do not have to live in Florida, or even in the US.