Where you can ride: six Robotaxi cities, and where the Cybercabs are

If you want a paid Robotaxi trip today, you are still looking at Model Y service in six U.S. cities. There is no verified public Cybercab hail tonight — invite-only guest rides only, downtown Austin.

Tesla Cybercabs staff · 3 September 2026 · Independent briefing · Not affiliated with Tesla

Tesla’s Robotaxi footprint, as described in launch-week reporting, is Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Tampa, and Orlando. CNBC says unsupervised Tesla vehicles have logged trips in those cities, and that one tracker put Tesla’s U.S. “unsupervised” fleet a little over 200 vehicles — a live-ops number, not the same thing as every vehicle on a DMV list.

On the ground in Austin, Cybercabs have been seen on Congress Avenue downtown, and a downtown display has been documented — that is not the Gigafactory. CybercabSpotter on X.

Mostly Model Y

The service Tesla already runs is widely reported as mostly Model Y, with Cybercabs only now joining Texas authorization files. Wikipedia’s Robotaxi page (as of this briefing) still describes the network as composed of Model Y vehicles as of earlier 2026, with Cybercab intended to join as volume production ramps.

The Texas count: 45 Cybercabs among ~314–420

Public Texas Department of Motor Vehicles / motor-carrier reporting, as relayed by journalists, is the basis for the Cybercab count — not a Tesla press kit on this site.

CNBC (3 Sept 2026): 45 Cybercab vehicles authorized for driverless operations in Texas, out of a total 420 vehicles registered in the state for driverless operations as of Wednesday night, per Texas DMV public records.
TechXplore (3 Sept 2026): Tesla had registered 314 robotaxis in Texas as of Wednesday, including 45 Cybercabs, according to FSD Database compiling Texas DMV data.
Teslarati: Cybercab registrations climbing from seven to 45 in the days before the event; unsupervised Model Y operations described separately as approaching ~200 on tracker data.

Those figures moved quickly (314 earlier in the week, 420 in later pulls). We print ~420 Texas Tesla robotaxis / ~45 Cybercabs as third-party reported counts (Reuters / Texas books as cited by journalists and X posters), plus the earlier ~314 pull, rather than freezing a single screenshot as eternal truth. A listing is not the same as a paid fare. Several reports stress that authorization is the legal ceiling Tesla filed, not a guarantee every VIN is in the app tonight.

How to actually book

Reporting points to the Tesla Robotaxi app (iOS and Android). Coverage is geofenced. Tonight: no verified public Cybercab hail. Invite-only guest rides are downtown Austin only. Robotaxi app 26.8.0 has Cybercab-related code (automatic doors and similar) plus rider, safety, and first-responder guides published by Tesla — that is not open hailing. Sawyer Merritt circulated those guides on X. TechTimes has said Cybercabs may appear in the app in the days after the event, without a locked date.

San Francisco Bay Area Tesla rides described by CNBC remain a different product: employee-driven Model Ys using supervised FSD, not the wheel-free Cybercab.

Independent ride alerts for when coverage or Cybercab booking news hits a city: waitlist. We cannot put you in Tesla’s official queue.

Sources

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