Vehicles drive themselves. Fleets still need operations.
DockDuty is building the depots and the operating routine that keep privately owned autonomous cars clean, inspected and ready for work.
Self-driving software gets the attention: the sensors, the chips, the cars themselves. But every transportation network that has scaled runs on something less visible, a place where vehicles go between jobs. Somewhere to be stored, cleaned, inspected, repaired and sent back out.
Autonomous cars remove the driver. They don’t remove that work.
DockDuty is building for it: secure depots for owners’ Cybercabs, a team that handles the physical side, and software that shows owners where their cars stand. No depot is open yet and no site lease is signed. This page explains what we’re building and why.
The car may be autonomous. The infrastructure can’t be an afterthought.
A robotaxi has no one to vacuum the seats at the end of a shift.
No one to notice a cracked mirror. No one to take it to the body shop.
No one to decide where it waits at 3 a.m.
Somebody has to.
Airlines didn’t scale on airplanes alone. They scaled on airports, hangars and ground crews.
We expect autonomous fleets to scale the same way: on depots, routines and people who take the job seriously.
The ground layer deserves the same discipline as the software. Clean handoffs. Tight checklists. Every car accounted for.
That’s the work we’re building toward.
Autonomous doesn’t mean self-sufficient
Who takes care of the robotaxi when nobody is sitting in the driver’s seat? That is the question DockDuty is built around.
A Cybercab is designed to drive itself. It can’t clean its own cabin, find itself a secure place to stay overnight, or book its own repairs. Someone still has to run the physical side.
Every large transportation network already has that layer. Airlines have airports and maintenance hangars. Trucking companies have terminals. Rental-car companies have fleet centers. Autonomous fleets need their own version.
The depot is the new gas station
For a century, a car that needed a stop went to a gas station. A driver pulled in, handled it and pulled out.
Autonomous fleets need a stop too, and there’s no driver to handle it. Cars need a place to be cleaned between shifts, checked for damage, stored securely when demand drops, and staged where they can get back to work quickly.
If autonomous ride networks grow the way their builders plan, that stop becomes basic infrastructure, as ordinary as a gas station on a corner. DockDuty is building for that stop.
The ground operating system
DockDuty is building two layers that work together.
The physical layer. Secure, gated depots with one assigned stall per car, plus cleaning, inspections, and coordination of repairs with service providers.
The software layer. An owner dashboard built to show where each car stands: in service, being cleaned, waiting on a repair, or ready.
Together they’re meant to give every car the same routine every day. The goal is simple: less time sitting idle, more time ready to work. The depot operation isn’t running yet. No depot is open yet and no site lease is signed.
Built for owners
If you plan to own a Cybercab, you’ll own a car designed to drive itself that can’t take care of itself. It needs somewhere to stay, someone to clean it, and someone to notice when something’s wrong.
That’s the job we’re building DockDuty to do, so that if a ride network opens to privately owned cars, your car is ready instead of sitting in your driveway.
What any car earns depends on the ride network, local demand and costs, and DockDuty doesn’t guarantee earnings. Priority Owner reservations are open in every metro we list, and the deposit is refundable at your request any time before onboarding. See pricing
Built for fleets
One car is a chore. Twenty cars is an operation. Two hundred is a logistics business.
Larger fleets need what any commercial fleet needs: predictable stall space, consistent cleaning and inspection, clear records, and one point of contact when something goes wrong. A fleet owner shouldn’t have to build a depot team from scratch to run autonomous cars.
DockDuty is being built to give fleets that layer, with per-stall pricing that steps down as the fleet grows. See fleet pricing
Built for scale
The long-term plan is a repeatable depot: the same layout logic, the same checklists, the same software and the same standard of care in every market where autonomous ride networks operate at scale.
An owner in one city should get the same service as an owner in another. That only works if the depot is a system, not a one-off.
No depot is open yet and no site lease is signed. See where reservations are open
Cybercabs may be the part everyone sees. DockDuty is building the part that keeps them running.
DockDuty is an independent company and is not affiliated with Tesla.