Tesla Says 300+ Cybercabs Are Now Driving Austin, and Dallas Is Next

So basically: Two years ago today, Tesla rolled the Cybercab out on a movie lot in California. Today, Tesla’s official Robotaxi account says more than 300 of them are giving rides in Austin. That is eight times as many as a month ago. And Tesla’s head of AI software says Dallas is next.

The post

On Saturday afternoon, Oct. 10, the @robotaxi account on X posted a short video of gold Cybercabs on Austin streets. The post said “One month after launch, we’ve scaled to 300+ Cybercabs serving Austin,” and called it “an 8x increase in 30 days.”

Tesla’s main account shared it within minutes.

That is the first time Tesla itself has put a number this high on the Austin Cybercab fleet.

The timing is not an accident

Oct. 10, 2024 is when Tesla showed off the Cybercab at its “We, Robot” event at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank. That night, a fleet of them drove guests around the lot.

Two years later to the day, Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s VP of AI software, posted:

“Two years since the 10/10 Cybercab WeRobot event, the cabs are everywhere in Austin now. Dallas soon.”

How fast this moved

Here is the quick timeline:

• Oct. 10, 2024: Cybercab unveiled in Burbank
• Sept. 4, 2026: public Cybercab rides open in Austin, the day after a launch event
• Early October: Texas registration records show 169 Cybercabs
• Oct. 8: Tesla registers 150 more, bringing the Texas total to 319
• Oct. 10: Tesla says 300+ are serving Austin

An 8x jump in 30 days means Tesla started with somewhere under 40 when rides opened. Not a Tesla App put the starting number around 38.

What a Cybercab is

If you have not seen one, the Cybercab is a two seat car built only to be a robotaxi. There is no steering wheel. There are no pedals. You get in, it drives, you get out.

In Austin, riders can get a Cybercab or a driverless Model Y across a service area of about 246 square miles, according to Not a Tesla App.

Dallas next

Elluswamy did not give a date. But Dallas already has Tesla’s robotaxi service with Model Ys, in an area of about 31 square miles around downtown, so the app and the map are already there.

Dallas is a bit of a surprise. Spotters had seen close to 200 Cybercabs parked at Tesla’s lot in Houston, so a lot of people guessed Houston would be next. Houston and Miami could still follow.

One wrinkle. By EV’s math, if all 300 plus Austin Cybercabs are on the Texas registry, fewer than 20 registered Cybercabs are left over for another city. So Dallas will need a fresh batch on the registry first.

What Tesla did not say

Some open questions:

• Supervision. Tesla did not say whether all 300 plus run with nobody in them, or how many still carry a safety monitor.
• Wait times. No word on whether rides got faster with the bigger fleet. Austin service already runs until 11 p.m.
• Regulators. NHTSA is still asking questions about how Tesla certified a car with no steering wheel. Tesla has until Oct. 30 to answer.

My take

This is the moment the Cybercab stopped being a concept car.

Two years ago it was 20 cars on a movie set. Now Tesla says it has more than 300 doing real rides for paying people in a real city. That is a factory story as much as a software story. You cannot add 260 cars in a month unless the line is actually running.

The part I would watch is the safety monitor question. Three hundred cars with nobody inside is a very different thing than three hundred cars with a monitor riding along.

But on the anniversary of the reveal, Tesla showed up with a number instead of a promise. That is new.

Next stop, Dallas.