All vikisRobotaxi and Cybercab
Elon Musk unveiled the Cybercab, a two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, at Tesla's We, Robot event on Oct 10, 2024. As of Nov 9, 2026 Tesla runs driverless Robotaxi rides in seven metro areas of Texas and Florida, Cybercabs carry paying riders in Austin since Sep 2026, and NHTSA is auditing how Tesla certified the car.
As of Nov 9, 2026, Tesla's Robotaxi page says autonomous rides are offered in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, Cybercabs have carried paying riders in Austin since Sep 3, 2026, and NHTSA has an open audit of how Tesla certified a car without a steering wheel or pedals (Electrek, Nov 5, 2026). Musk unveiled the Cybercab at Tesla's We, Robot event on Oct 10, 2024. In the clip he says Tesla expected to start unsupervised driving in Texas and California the next year, and to be building the Cybercab in 2026, "before 2027, let me put it that way".
Status: Late. Last checked: Nov 9, 2026.
This page is about the driverless ride service and the Cybercab. The software Tesla sells to owners, Full Self-Driving (Supervised), is on Full Self-Driving.
What Musk announced
The idea is older than the car. At Tesla's Autonomy Day on Apr 22, 2019, Musk said that "next year for sure we will have over a million robotaxis on the road", and that owners would be able to add their own cars to a Tesla network and share the fares with Tesla (Tesla).
Five years later he showed the vehicle built for that network: the Cybercab, with two seats, no steering wheel and no pedals. He put its operating cost at about 20 cents a mile over time, a price to riders of perhaps 30 or 40 cents a mile, and said buyers would be able to buy one for under $30,000 (Tesla, Oct 10, 2024). The same evening he showed the Robovan, a larger driverless people mover.
Every promise and what happened
| Promised | When he said it | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| "Over a million robotaxis on the road" in 2020 | Apr 22, 2019, Autonomy Day | None in 2020; Tesla's first paid rides began in Austin on Jun 22, 2025, with safety monitors in the cars (Fox Business) |
| Owners add their own cars to Tesla's network | Apr 22, 2019 | Tesla said on Oct 21, 2026 the first customer cars could join "somewhere around Q2 next year" (transcript) |
| Unsupervised driving in Texas and California in 2025 | Oct 10, 2024, We, Robot | Texas: Austin rides from Jun 2025, safety monitors removed from some rides from Jan 2026. California: the Bay Area still ran with a safety driver in Jul 2026 (Tesla Q4 2025 and Q2 2026 updates) |
| Cybercab in production "before 2027" | Oct 10, 2024 | Done: production began at Gigafactory Texas in Q2 2026 (Tesla Q2 2026 update) |
| A Cybercab for under $30,000 | Oct 10, 2024 | No price published; Tesla said it is "trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of this year" (transcript, Oct 21, 2026) |
| Rides for 30 to 40 cents a mile | Oct 10, 2024 | Tesla publishes no per-mile fare; the first Austin rides cost a flat $4.20 (Fox Business) |
| Ride-hailing for "probably half the population of the US" by the end of 2025 | Jul 23, 2025, earnings call | At the end of 2025 Tesla listed Austin and the Bay Area only (Tesla Q4 2025 update) |
| Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, Orlando, Tampa and Las Vegas in the first half of 2026 | Jan 28, 2026, Tesla Q4 2025 update | Five of seven: Dallas and Houston in Apr, Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Jul; Phoenix and Las Vegas "Preparations Underway" (Tesla Q2 2026 update) and not listed on Nov 9, 2026 (Tesla) |
From Austin to seven metro areas
Jun 22, 2025: Austin. Tesla started invite-only rides in a geofenced part of Austin in a few Model Ys, for a flat $4.20, with Tesla "safety monitors" in the cars (Fox Business, Jun 22, 2025). On the Jul 23, 2025 call Tesla said the Bay Area service would launch "with a person in the driver's seat" while it waited for permits (transcript).
Dec 2025 to Jan 2026: no one in the car. Tesla began testing driverless Robotaxis in Austin in December and "began removing the safety monitor from customer rides in January on a limited basis" (Tesla Q4 2025 update).
Apr 2026: Dallas and Houston. Tesla launched unsupervised rides in both cities in April (Tesla Q1 2026 update), in small service areas: Dallas around Highland Park, and about 25 square miles of Houston by early riders' reading of Tesla's maps, against about 245 in Austin (Electrek, Apr 18, 2026).
Q2 2026: Cybercab production. "Cybercab began production at Gigafactory Texas", with engineering test drives on public roads and employee rides on the factory campus from July (Tesla Q2 2026 update). Tesla lists installed capacity of more than 125,000 Cybercabs a year and notes that installed capacity is not the production rate.
Jul 2026: Florida. Unsupervised rides started in Miami, Orlando and Tampa in July, and Tesla counted seven metros (Tesla Q2 2026 update). Tesla did not say how many cars it put in Tampa or Orlando (Electrek, Jul 21, 2026).
Sep 3, 2026: Cybercab rides and a federal audit. Tesla "started providing Robotaxi rides using Cybercabs on September 3 in Austin" (Tesla Q3 2026 update). The same day NHTSA opened Audit Query AQ26002, covering an estimated 1,000 Cybercabs, to examine "the process and technical data" behind Tesla's self-certification that the car meets federal safety standards (Electrek, Sep 4, 2026). A special order with 21 questions followed; Tesla answered on Oct 30 and asked NHTSA to keep the entire answer confidential (Electrek, Nov 5, 2026). NHTSA has not said the car breaks any rule.
Sep 30, 2026: about two million driverless miles. Tesla reported "nearly two million cumulative unsupervised miles" for the service, eight times the previous quarter, with Austin hours of 6am to midnight (Tesla Q3 2026 update). On the Oct 21 call Musk said Cybercab "is primarily going to be" a Tesla-run transport service, and that Austin's Cybercab fleet had grown tenfold since launch (transcript).
Nov 2026: more room for Cybercab. Musk posted on Nov 5, 2026 that Tesla would wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2027 "to make room for increased Cybercab production"; Texas DMV records counted about 570 Cybercabs among more than 1,200 Tesla robotaxis registered in the state (Fox Business, Nov 6, 2026).
Where Robotaxi runs on Nov 9, 2026
Texas: Austin (Model Y and Cybercab), Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston. Florida: Miami, Orlando and Tampa. Those seven are the cities on Tesla's Robotaxi page. The Bay Area service Tesla listed with a safety driver in its Q2 2026 update is not among them, and Phoenix and Las Vegas, promised for the first half of 2026, have not launched. Tesla publishes no fleet count per city.
Why the status is Late: the Cybercab arrived on time and a driverless service exists, but most of the promised scale and dates (a million cars in 2020, half the US by the end of 2025, seven new metros by mid-2026, owners' cars on the network) have passed, and Tesla still says each is coming.
We think
We think no private buyer will take delivery of a Cybercab before Jul 2027. Musk called it primarily a Tesla-run service on Oct 21, 2026, Tesla has published no price, and NHTSA's certification audit of the car is still open with Tesla's answers kept confidential.
Confidence: Likely. Check by: Jul 2027.
We think Tesla's Robotaxi page will list at least one metro outside Texas and Florida, most likely Phoenix, by the end of Jun 2027. Tesla has said "Preparations Underway" for Phoenix and Las Vegas since Jul 2026, and its first-half 2026 promise brought five of seven cities within about seven months.
Confidence: Possible. Check by: Jun 2027.
Sources
- We, Robot | Tesla Cybercab Unveil, Tesla on YouTube, Oct 10, 2024
- Tesla Autonomy Day, Tesla on YouTube, Apr 22, 2019
- Robotaxi, Tesla, read Nov 9, 2026
- Musk launches Tesla AI robotaxi in Austin with flat fees under $5, Fox Business, Jun 22, 2025
- Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2025 earnings call transcript, The Motley Fool, Jul 23, 2025
- Q4 2025 Update, Tesla (SEC filing), Jan 28, 2026
- Q1 2026 Update, Tesla (SEC filing), Apr 2026
- Tesla launches 'Robotaxi' in Houston and Dallas with tiny geofences, Electrek, Apr 18, 2026
- Q2 2026 Update, Tesla (SEC filing), Jul 22, 2026
- Tesla adds Robotaxi in Tampa and Orlando, Electrek, Jul 21, 2026
- Tesla Cybercab is already under NHTSA investigation after launch, Electrek, Sep 4, 2026
- Q3 2026 Update, Tesla (SEC filing), Oct 21, 2026
- Tesla (TSLA) Q3 2026 earnings call transcript, The Motley Fool, Oct 22, 2026
- Tesla wants its sworn Cybercab answers to NHTSA kept entirely secret, Electrek, Nov 5, 2026
- Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production at Texas factory next year to make room for Cybercab, Fox Business, Nov 6, 2026
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We, Robot | Tesla Cybercab Unveil
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