Dozens of Tesla Cybercabs Just Took Over the Dallas Robotaxi Lot

Gold Cybercabs lined up along the fence at Tesla’s Dallas Robotaxi hub on Thursday morning, with dozens more parked across the lot. Credit: @dallastsladavid/X

Tesla has filled the fence line at its Dallas Robotaxi hub with gold Cybercabs, according to a new photo from local owner @dallastsladavid, pushing out the row of unsupervised Model Y robotaxis that usually parks there while the two-seater still waits to carry Dallas riders.

David, who posts as Dallas Tesla David, shared an elevated shot of the gravel lot on Thursday morning. The left perimeter, where Tesla normally lines up its driverless Model Y fleet, is now one long row of Cybercabs, and dozens more of the gold two-seaters fill the middle of the yard.

David wrote that the Model Ys appear to have been moved, and that he assumes they are now parked at another fenced lot a few streets away. Another Dallas user replying to the post said the Model Ys are at that second lot, suggesting Tesla picked it because it is paved, which keeps the cars cleaner, and because it is easier for the robotaxis to drive in and out of. Tesla has not commented on the shuffle.

Cybercab is Tesla’s purpose-built robotaxi, a two-seater with butterfly doors and no steering wheel or pedals. Tesla opened Cybercab rides to the public in Austin on September 4, the day after its launch event, initially with safety monitors and a small fleet. Texas DMV records showed registered Cybercabs climbing from 45 to 169 by early October, and Elon Musk said last week that Tesla is “being extremely careful with autonomous safety” as it scales.

Dallas riders are still on Model Y, even though the city has had unsupervised Robotaxi service since Tesla opened it alongside Houston in April with roughly 30 square miles of coverage. Tesla widened the Dallas service area in late August, and gold Cybercabs were already staging at a Dallas Robotaxi lot before the Austin launch. The rollout is also under federal scrutiny, with NHTSA investigating Tesla’s certification of nearly 1,000 Cybercabs and whether they meet federal safety standards.

David has been tracking the Dallas Cybercabs for more than a week. On October 2 he posted that he was charging alongside “a dozen plus robotaxi’s” and “a few cybercabs” at a Dallas Supercharger, and in a video from the same night he said two fleet managers sat waiting in Cybercabs to plug in the Model Ys as they drove in on their own.

By October 3, he was calling the city “absolutely FLOODED” with Robotaxis “just waiting for Cybercab to join the fun,” and a day later he wrote that Cybercabs are “everywhere in Dallas, just not yet giving rides to passengers.” When another owner asked on October 1 for his prediction of the first Dallas Cybercab ride, David replied: “Before end of month.”

What the photo can’t show is why Tesla moved the Cybercabs to the front row, whether any of them are already running driverless test routes around Dallas, or when the Robotaxi app will let Dallas riders hail one. Tesla has not announced a Dallas Cybercab launch date, how many Cybercabs are assigned to the city, or whether service there would start with safety monitors the way Austin did.

If David’s end-of-October call holds, the next photo from this lot could show gaps along that fence. For now, the Cybercabs are parked in plain view of anyone driving past, and the Model Ys are doing the work a few streets away.