San Antonio’s first robotaxi hearing wasn’t about robotaxis. It was about 56 parking stalls.
Waymo began driverless rides here on February 24, 2026, by rolling invitation, across more than 60 square miles and, from March 31, the airport; after an April flood pause it restarted on September 17, 2026 for riders who already had access. None of that ever went before the city, because Texas law doesn’t let it. The one piece of a robotaxi network San Antonio actually got to vote on was a parking lot: Tesla’s 56-stall charging depot near the Pearl, recommended 8–2 by the Zoning Commission on July 21, 2026. That’s the whole story of this industry in one agenda item, the cars are the easy part, and the depot is the asset worth fighting for. This page is the honest version of how San Antonio buyers get on the ownership side of that trade.
The honest status: no San Antonio 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, 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.
San Antonio and Orlando are launch twins, Waymo opened both to the public on the same February morning. Where we build next is shaped by demand we can point to, and that’s exactly what the list further down this page is.
Market statusDemand open
Where San Antonio 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 San Antonio
- No stall reservations name San Antonio 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 San Antonio
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 San Antonio reservations to support a depot.
- Waymo paused its San Antonio rides after an April flood incident and restarted them on September 17, 2026 for riders who already had access, so the service test is already met.
- Whether DockDuty plans a San Antonio depot is a demand question, and four Texas metros already run driverless today.
- What a San Antonio 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 San Antonio?
None yet (as of live count).
DockDuty publishes the current count of stall reservations naming San Antonio 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 San Antonio?
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 San Antonio?
Yes. Use the site form on the DockDuty Network page and name San Antonio. A San Antonio 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 San Antonio
Every stall sells at our Priority rates with a $450 refundable deposit, in every metro we list. Reserve a Priority stall, elect San Antonio, TX in the flow, and your spot is a Priority spot this round.
You don’t have to wait for a San Antonio 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 San Antonio on the same dashboard our founding clients use today.
- Elect San Antonio, TX 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 San Antonio, updated as markets open and free for anyone to cite.
The San Antonio 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 Texas 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 San Antonio, TX right now, become a Priority client for $450 per cab, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded.
The 56-stall hearing, and why it matters to owners
Texas settled the robotaxi question at the state level in 2017: SB 2205 authorized automated vehicles to operate with no human driver present and barred cities from writing their own rules, so there was never going to be a San Antonio robotaxi ordinance. The one lever the city still holds is land use. Which is why the only robotaxi item ever to reach a San Antonio hearing room was a zoning case: Tesla’s application (filed June 2, 2026) for a 56-stall private charging depot on vacant land at 245 and 257 W. Josephine St., next to the Pearl. The Zoning Commission recommended it 8–2 on July 21, 2026 and sent it to City Council, and Tesla is reported to be eyeing a second property near the airport.
Read that docket the way we do. A carmaker with every advantage in software and vehicles still had to stand in front of a city commission to secure parking stalls with chargers. The scarce, permitted, fought-over asset in this industry is the ground layer, what a robotaxi depot actually does, and that’s the layer a DockDuty reservation buys into. Tesla is spending zoning capital in San Antonio to build exactly the thing our founding clients reserved: a depot stall.
The rider side, precisely: Waymo’s service is open to the public by invitation. It paused after an April flood incident and restarted on September 17, 2026 for riders who already had access, and Waymo says it will add new riders later this year (Axios, September 17, 2026; TechCrunch, September 17, 2026). Dallas dropped its waitlist on August 4, 2026 and Houston on August 20. Since March 31, 2026 it has served San Antonio International Airport, with curbside pickup and drop-off at Terminals A and B, only the fourth airport on Waymo’s network. And under SB 2807, the state’s TxDMV authorization requirement for commercial AV operators became enforceable on May 28, 2026, so the operating companies now carry a state authorization. The seventh-largest city in America: 1.53 million people as of the Census Bureau’s 2024 estimates, rides driverless today.
Is this legal in Texas?
Yes, and it has been for longer than most people realise. SB 2205 (2017) authorized driverless operation statewide with no safety driver required, and barred city-by-city rules, which is the main reason four Texas metros run driverless today while much larger states have none. SB 2807 added a TxDMV authorization for commercial operators, enforceable from May 28, 2026: free, non-expiring, with personal-use vehicles exempt.
Where that last exemption leaves an individual owner whose car earns on somebody else’s network is a real question, and one for a Texas lawyer rather than a depot company. We set out what the statutes say and what they leave open in Texas robotaxi law, in plain English, and the four-metro picture is on the Texas page. Neither is legal advice.
What we put in writing
Nobody can honestly tell you what a Cybercab will earn, no privately owned one has completed a paid ride anywhere, so every projection is a projection. What is worth comparing between operators is what happens to you if it goes wrong, and whether it is written down before you pay. Ours is, in the agreement that renders in the checkout before the card field:
- Your $450 deposit is refundable at your request at any time before your vehicle is onboarded, with no reason or documentation required. If DockDuty publicly announces it will not open any depot, or ceases operations, outstanding deposits are refunded automatically within 30 days. The Reservation Agreement (§3) governs. To request a refund, email owners@dockduty.com from the email on file. Refunds are initiated within five business days.
- You keep title, always. Nothing transfers any ownership interest in any vehicle to DockDuty (§4.3).
- Month-to-month. No minimum term, no early-termination penalty (§4.3).
- Fee caps: onboarding never above $1,000 per vehicle, intake balance never above $550, no other mandatory fees (§2.2). Charging electricity included, no markup on energy (§4.1).
- Outside date December 31, 2028. If your first vehicle is not onboarded by then and the delay isn’t on your side, you choose a full refund or twelve-month extensions, at your option, not ours (§3.3).
- If we are acquired, you can leave with a full refund within 30 days of notice (§8.4).
Deposits are held at Mercury in separate, labeled accounts, kept apart from our operating balance. Owners can request a written confirmation letter. (§2.3) Before you pay anyone in this category, including us, it is worth running the ten checks we published.
Frequently asked questions
Can anyone ride a Waymo in San Antonio yet?
Not yet. Waymo opened San Antonio to its first public riders on February 24, 2026 (the same morning as Dallas, Houston and Orlando, the first time it opened multiple cities at once), paused service after an April flood incident, and restarted it on September 17, 2026 for riders who already had access; Waymo says it will add new riders later this year (Axios; TechCrunch, September 17, 2026). Dallas dropped its waitlist on August 4, 2026 and Houston on August 20; San Antonio is still invitation-only. The service covers more than 60 square miles, from North Star Mall down to the fairgrounds, including downtown, the River Walk, the Alamo and the convention center, and it has served San Antonio International Airport since March 31, 2026.
Does Texas law allow robotaxis?
Yes, statewide, since 2017. SB 2205 authorized automated vehicles to operate on Texas roads with no human driver present and barred cities from imposing their own robotaxi rules, so San Antonio cannot license, cap or fee the service. What changed recently: under SB 2807, the state’s TxDMV authorization requirement became enforceable on May 28, 2026, so companies operating automated vehicles commercially in Texas now hold a state authorization. Operation itself remains legal and driverless. Where other states fall is answered state by state here.
Is there a DockDuty depot in San Antonio?
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 San Antonio, the seventh-largest city in the country with live driverless service today, is exactly the kind of market that argues for itself. Registering San Antonio interest directly shapes where we build next.
Can I own a Cybercab from San Antonio before a local 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 (same $450 refundable deposit, one Priority spot per person or company). 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 San Antonio, TX 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. We wrote the San Antonio-specific version of this question, how much can a robotaxi make in San Antonio?, covering which networks actually run here and what that does to the answer.
The city already voted on what matters. Own the next wave.
Reserve a Priority stall today, elect San Antonio 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.