Waymo has leased three DC depots. The law hasn’t let it carry a rider yet.

Waymo announced Washington, DC in March 2025 with riders promised for 2026. As of September 1, 2026, waymo.com lists the District under Up Next with no date, every Waymo and Zoox test mile in DC still has an operator behind the wheel, and the only bill that would change that, B26-0684, had its hearing on July 13 and, as of October 14, no markup and no vote, with a December 31 deadline before it dies. Cross the 14th Street Bridge and the statute changes again: Virginia continued its bill to 2027, Maryland’s died in April. If you live in Arlington, Bethesda, Silver Spring or Alexandria, this page is the honest version of what that means if the side of the trade you care about is owning the cars.

The honest status: no Washington depot yet

Market statusDemand open

Where Washington, DC 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 Washington, DC

3 reserved (as of October 15, 2026).

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. The Council bill as drafted allows no network before 2028.

What would bring DockDuty to Washington, DC

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 Washington, DC reservations to support a depot.
• A law that allows a driverless network. Waymo is testing here, and the Council bill as drafted allows no network before 2028.
• An operator has already leased charging and maintenance sites in the District.

What a Washington, DC 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

September 27, 2026

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How many stall reservations name Washington, DC?

Stall reservations naming Washington, DC: 3 (as of October 15, 2026).

DockDuty publishes the current count of stall reservations naming Washington, DC 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 Washington, DC?

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 Washington, DC?

Yes. Use the site form on the DockDuty Network page and name Washington, DC. A Washington, DC 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.

You don’t have to live inside the line

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 Arlington or Bethesda on the same dashboard our founding clients use today.
• Elect Washington, DC as your preferred market right in the reservation flow. When the network reaches your part of the map, 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 Washington, updated as markets open and free for anyone to cite.

What about Arlington, Bethesda, Silver Spring, and the rest of the metro?

The DC metro is the only one on this site where a robotaxi changes legal regime by crossing a bridge, so the suburb answer is really three answers. In the District, D.C. Code § 50-2352.01 gives DDOT a testing program and nothing more: every test must have an operator behind the wheel, Waymo and Zoox are the two companies that have notified DDOT of testing, Tesla is not on the list, and DDOT’s own April 2026 policy report offers no recommendations yet. In Virginia, Waymo began mapping Alexandria on May 20, 2026 with human-driven cars, with Arlington to follow, and said it has no immediate plans to launch service there. SB 670, the bill that would license driverless commercial operation, passed the Senate 35 to 4 on February 12, 2026 and was continued to the 2027 session by the House Transportation Committee on March 5; its sponsor expects the first vehicles on Virginia roads in 2028 at the earliest, and a state work group owes its report by November 1, 2026. In Maryland, the General Assembly adjourned on April 13, 2026 without passing SB 909 or HB 1295, so driverless operation is unauthorized statewide; Waymo’s only announced Maryland market is Baltimore, where it is mapping with humans driving, and it has said it will be back in Annapolis in 2027. So Bethesda, Silver Spring, Rockville, Gaithersburg and College Park are a Maryland question, Tysons, Reston, Fairfax, Falls Church and McLean are a Virginia question, and the answer in both today is no vehicles and no framework.

The airports make the point sharper. Reagan National sits in Arlington County, Virginia, five miles from downtown, on federal land that Congress placed under Virginia jurisdiction; Dulles is in Loudoun and Fairfax counties, 26 miles west; BWI is in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 32 miles northeast. A DC-only law cannot reach a single one of the region’s three airports. That is not a knock on the bill, it is the geography, and it is why the region’s rollout gets decided in three buildings, not one. The pattern from every other metro is a dense core first, widening in steps, Orlando’s launch zone still excludes its northern suburbs weeks in.

If you’re reading this as a rider, that’s the whole answer and the map is where we keep it current. If you’re reading it as a would-be owner, the line matters much less than you’d think. Your reservation attaches to the DockDuty network, not to one city, so an Arlington owner and a Capitol Hill owner have exactly the same economics.

Why Washington matters to a depot company

The District is the one place in the country where the robotaxi rulebook is being written in public with a price list attached. B26-0684, the Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Authorization Amendment Act of 2026, was introduced on May 1, 2026 by Councilmember Charles Allen with Brooke Pinto and Matthew Frumin, and had a daylong hearing before the Committee on Transportation and the Environment on July 13, 2026. As introduced it charges a $1 million application fee and a $5 million fee for a three-year commercial permit, taxes every mile driven under that permit at 15 cents, requires 250,000 test miles inside the District over at least 180 days, limits each operator to 200 vehicles until DDOT approves its comprehensive plan (the sponsors describe that as a cap until January 1, 2028), and allows an app-dispatched on-demand network no earlier than January 1, 2028. The chair indicated the Council would spend the summer refining it with stakeholders; as of October 14 it had still not been marked up or scheduled for a vote (the timeline is below). Waymo has said it is pushing back on the 200-vehicle limit. Where your state falls on that spectrum is its own question, answered state by state here.

Here is the part a depot company notices. Waymo has told the Council it has mapped all eight wards and logged hundreds of thousands of autonomous miles in preparation for serving the District, with an operator in the seat the whole time, and that it has committed tens of millions of dollars to service centers and charging in Wards 5 and 7. On August 6, 2026 it leased a third DC location, its largest locally, a 32,000-square-foot charging and maintenance facility in Northeast DC across from a Metrobus depot. Zoox has been mapping central DC with safety drivers since fall 2025. Three sites, hundreds of thousands of miles, zero paying riders, because the depot comes first and the statute comes second. That is the sequence we are running in Orlando, and it is the layer this company sells: the stall, the charging, the cleaning, the dispatch, what a robotaxi depot actually does. The buyers are here too: the District’s EV share of new registrations hit 16.3% in the fourth quarter of 2025, second only to California and two and a half times the national rate, per the Alliance for Automotive Innovation.

One thing Washington buyers should know: every robotaxi test mile in the District today belongs to Waymo or Zoox, and neither can sell you a seat. Tesla is not among the companies that have notified DDOT of testing, its paid driverless service runs only in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, and the Cybercab a reader photographed on Connecticut Avenue on July 1, 2026 was a sighting, not a service; Tesla’s own app copy for DC says rides will come “in the future.” The Cybercab (the car individual owners will put on a network) has no public order book yet. That’s the window: how to be ready on day one. Electing Washington in the reserve flow is the clearest signal we get about where the network goes next.

DC robotaxi bill timeline: where B26-0684 stands

As of October 14, 2026, the most recent formal action on B26-0684 is the July 13 public hearing. The committee has not marked it up and the full Council has not voted on it. In early October a vote before the end of the year was described as expected but not guaranteed, and the calendar matters, because a bill the Council does not pass by the end of Council Period 26 on December 31, 2026 dies and has to be reintroduced.

1. May 1, 2026, introduced. Councilmember Charles Allen, with Brooke Pinto and Matthew Frumin, introduced the Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Authorization Amendment Act of 2026. It went to the Committee on Transportation and the Environment, which Allen chairs.
2. July 13, 2026, public hearing. At a daylong hearing, a Tesla policy adviser testified that Tesla opposes the bill’s fees, calling them an “unnecessarily burdensome barrier to entry,” and asked that test miles driven in other cities count toward the 250,000-mile requirement, as The Weekly Driver reported from The Washington Times’ account.
3. Summer 2026, refining. The chair said the Council would spend the summer working with stakeholders on the bill.
4. October 6, 2026, no vote. The Council met without taking it up. As of October 7, no markup or vote was scheduled, and a vote before January was described as expected but not guaranteed. We found no markup notice through October 14.
5. Before December 31, 2026, or start over. Council Period 26 ends December 31, 2026, and under the Council’s rules a bill not passed by the end of the period dies and needs a new bill in the next one.

Becoming law is more than one vote. Per the Council’s own description of the process, the committee marks the bill up and reports it, the full Council votes on it twice (the second vote at a legislative meeting at least 14 days after the first), the Mayor signs it, lets it take effect or vetoes it, and the act then sits before Congress for 30 congressional review days. Even if the Council passes it before December 31, those steps mean a permanent law would almost certainly not take effect before 2027, and the bill as introduced still holds an on-demand robotaxi network to January 1, 2028 at the earliest. The fees, the mileage rule and the 200-vehicle cap can all change in markup.

For a would-be Cybercab owner in the District, the vote is only half the gate. Under the bill as introduced, offering driverless rides in DC takes a commercial permit, and that version, the one Tesla testified against, prices it at $1 million to apply plus $5 million for three years. Tesla has not notified DDOT of any testing here, so the DC clock for an owner’s Cybercab runs through whether Tesla applies, not only through the Council. That is why the reservation attaches to the network rather than one city: you can reserve a stall and elect Washington, DC now, and 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 (no reply means onboarding at that depot).

Frequently asked questions

Does a robotaxi serve Arlington, Bethesda, Silver Spring, or the DC suburbs?

No, and not inside the District either, as of October 14, 2026. DC allows testing only, with an operator behind the wheel for every mile (D.C. Code § 50-2352.01); Waymo and Zoox are the companies that have notified DDOT. Virginia has no driverless framework: SB 670 passed the Senate 35 to 4 on February 12, 2026 and was continued to the 2027 session on March 5, and Waymo, which began mapping Alexandria on May 20, 2026 with human-driven cars and Arlington after it, says it has no immediate plans to launch service in the state. Maryland’s SB 909 and HB 1295 died when the General Assembly adjourned on April 13, 2026, so Bethesda, Silver Spring, Rockville, Gaithersburg and College Park have no legal path today; Waymo’s only Maryland activity is human-driven mapping in Baltimore. If you are looking at this as an owner rather than a rider, the line matters less than you would think, because your reservation attaches to the DockDuty network, not to one city.

Are robotaxis legal in Washington, DC?

Testing is; carrying passengers is not, yet. D.C. Law 23-156, effective December 23, 2020, replaced the 2012 driver-in-the-seat rule with a DDOT testing program, and DDOT reads that program as requiring an operator behind the wheel ready to take over. The bill that would add deployment authority, B26-0684, was introduced May 1, 2026, heard July 13, 2026, and had not been marked up or voted on as of October 14, 2026. As introduced it charges $1 million to apply and $5 million for a three-year permit, taxes commercial autonomous miles at 15 cents each, requires 250,000 District test miles over at least 180 days, limits each operator to 200 vehicles until DDOT approves its plan, and allows an on-demand robotaxi network no earlier than January 1, 2028. In early October a vote before the end of the year was described as expected but not guaranteed, and the bill dies if the Council has not passed it when Council Period 26 ends on December 31, 2026.

When will the DC Council vote on the robotaxi bill?

No vote is scheduled. As of October 14, 2026, B26-0684 has had its public hearing (July 13) but no committee markup and no Council vote, and in early October a vote before the end of the year was described as expected but not guaranteed. The deadline is real: a bill not passed by the end of Council Period 26 on December 31, 2026 dies and must be reintroduced. Passing takes a committee markup and two Council votes at least 14 days apart; becoming law then takes the Mayor and 30 congressional review days, and as introduced the bill allows no on-demand robotaxi network before January 1, 2028.

Can you take a robotaxi to Reagan National, Dulles, or BWI?

Not today, and a DC law alone would not change that. Reagan National sits in Arlington County, Virginia, on federal land that Congress placed under Virginia jurisdiction; Dulles is in Loudoun and Fairfax counties, Virginia; BWI is in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. All three sit outside the District, so airport service waits on Virginia and Maryland statutes as well as the airports’ own rules. No operator has announced airport service anywhere in the region.

Is Tesla bringing its robotaxi or the Cybercab to Washington, DC?

Not yet, and Tesla has announced no DC date. Tesla is not among the companies that have notified DDOT of testing in the District, and its paid driverless service runs in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa (as tesla.com listed them on October 6, 2026). At the July 13 hearing a Tesla policy adviser told the Council that Tesla opposes the fees in the bill and wants test miles from other cities to count toward the 250,000-mile requirement. For a DC owner, the District timeline depends on Tesla applying for a permit as well as on the Council vote.

Is there a DockDuty depot in Washington, DC?

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. The District is a strong candidate on the merits: an operator already leasing charging and maintenance sites here, a Council bill with a written clock, and an EV share of new registrations that hit 16.3% in the fourth quarter of 2025, second only to California. Registering Washington interest directly shapes where we build next.

Can I own a Cybercab from DC, Maryland or Virginia before a Washington 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, reservable from any metro we list (same $450 refundable deposit). 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 Washington, DC 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.

The bill will move. Ownership doesn’t have to wait for it.

Reserve a Priority stall today, elect Washington 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.

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