Tesla's Robotaxi service and the Cybercab: fleet size, cities, rides and regulators.
Tesla Robotaxi LLC's Texas registry count reached 1,051 vehicles on Oct. 27, 2026, according to FSD Database's tracker of TxDMV records: 544 Cybercabs and 507 Model Ys. That is up from 970 a day earlier and 248 more than a week ago.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posted on X on Oct. 26, 2026 that Tesla's Tampa and Miami Robotaxi zones should include the beaches. Elon Musk replied "Coming soon" on Oct. 27, but gave no timeline, no list of beaches and no new map.
Elon Musk posted on Oct. 27, 2026 that Tesla's Robotaxi race with Waymo in Austin "was never a real contest," after a Robotaxi Tracker chart showed Tesla's 438,000 driverless Austin miles in the week to Oct. 18 topping Waymo's 406,000 Q2 weekly average. The periods differ, and Waymo still drives about seven times more across all markets.
Tesla vehicle engineering VP Lars Moravy said in a Munro Live Cybercab deep dive, shared by Tesla's Robotaxi account on Oct. 26, 2026, that the Cybercab line "can run so fast" it doesn't run every day and "is currently outpacing our deployments." The line is about 78% automated, with a goal of 100% and a 10-second cycle time.
Tesla expanded its Houston Robotaxi service area on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, with a rocket-shaped map that now runs from northwest Harris County to downtown and Bellaire. Robotaxi Tracker lists the zone at 254 square miles, served by a community count of 34 driverless Model Ys.
Tesla's driverless Cybercabs and Model Y Robotaxis carried fans to the Formula 1 US Grand Prix in Austin over the Oct. 24-25 weekend, after Tesla quietly extended service to Circuit of the Americas and kept ride requests open until 1 a.m. Cybercab Spotter logged a record 1,250 sightings on Saturday.
Tesla has added two passenger features to the Cybercab in Austin: a live rear-camera view riders can open during a trip, and a quiet mode that darkens the whole screen. Both surfaced on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. Tesla hasn't published release notes for either.
Tesla has added Jacksonville, Florida, to the cities where Robotaxi is "coming soon," alongside Las Vegas, Phoenix and San Antonio, but it hasn't announced a launch date, service area or fleet size, local outlets News4JAX and Action News Jax reported.
Tesla will launch Cybercab in Dallas next month, AI chief Ashok Elluswamy said on the Q3 2026 earnings call on Oct. 21, and expects to unlock 24/7 Robotaxi operation by the end of 2026. Musk said Austin's Cybercab fleet has grown tenfold since launch about a month ago.
Tesla published its first Robotaxi Safety Report on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, hours before Q3 earnings. It claims 3.1 million miles with no safety monitor on board from Jan. 22 to Oct. 18, with zero injuries, zero airbag deployments and zero pedestrians or cyclists hit, and lists Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Phoenix and San Antonio as coming soon.
Tesla has extended Cybercab ride hours in Austin to midnight, matching its Model Y Robotaxis, according to a Robotaxi app notification shared Oct. 17. Service now runs 6 a.m. to 12 a.m., leaving a six-hour overnight gap before round-the-clock rides.
NHTSA's latest automated-driving crash data, posted Thursday, Oct. 15, shows Tesla's Robotaxi fleet reported nine crashes from August 2026: five in Dallas, three in Austin and one in Tampa. None listed an injury. One was the first report involving a Cybercab, which drove into a water-filled pothole in an Austin parking lot.
Jody Kerns, Tesla's Senior Manager of Cybercab General Assembly at Gigafactory Texas, says he is joining Rivian as Director of General Assembly for the R2 in Normal, Illinois. Electrek says he is the second Cybercab launch leader to leave Tesla this year.
A Tesla UI engineer says on-demand rear and repeater camera views are 'in development' for the mirrorless Cybercab, and chief engineer Eric Earley says new seats are coming. Neither has a date, and both land as NHTSA presses Tesla on the car's missing mirrors.
Federal regulators opened defect petition DP26010 on Oct. 9 covering 2026 Model Y and Cybercab robotaxis. It is the earliest step in NHTSA's process, not a recall, but it lands as Tesla scales Cybercab in Austin and eyes Dallas.
As Mondial de l'Auto opens in Paris, Tesla is putting a U.S. fleet Cybercab on Stand C25 in Hall 7.1. No rides; supervised FSD demos use six Model 3s instead. Europe still lacks a Cybercab launch plan.
Tesla AI engineer Yun-Ta Tsai said Grok Bot is enabled on all Cybercabs and the rest of the Model Y fleet. Tesla's Robotaxi account confirmed in-ride access; a rider demoed Amazon shopping from a Cybercab.
Texas DMV records now list 349 Cybercabs and 769 total Tesla robotaxis after a 30-car batch on Oct. 14. Tesla still hasn't shared ride counts or wait times, and NHTSA wants Cybercab certification answers by Oct. 30.
