Credit: Tesla Robotaxi/X
Tesla filled the roads around Circuit of the Americas with Cybercabs on Sunday, October 25, as its Robotaxi service carried Formula 1 fans to and from the United States Grand Prix in Austin. Riders and spotters at the track counted more than 50 Cybercabs dropping off passengers by midday, just days after Tesla stretched its Austin geofence to include the racetrack and pushed its last call to 1 AM.
The company’s own Robotaxi account set the tone at 12:36 PM PT with a one-word post, “Swarm,” and a photo of Cybercabs and Model Y Robotaxis lined up nose to tail along a roadside near the circuit. Later that evening, video shared on X showed a long column of the two-seaters and Model Y vehicles heading back to base after the race, which owners following the service called the largest group of Tesla robotaxis seen together on public roads.
Swarm pic.twitter.com/feDxQlpgux
— Tesla Robotaxi (@robotaxi) October 25, 2026
Behind the show of force is a fleet that keeps growing on paper. Tesla added 32 more Cybercabs to its Texas DMV registrations on Saturday, bringing registered Cybercabs to 463 alongside 507 Model Y vehicles, for a total of 970, according to registration data tracked by Tslachan on X. The same account cautioned that a vehicle being registered does not mean it is out on the road giving rides, so the number of cars working the race at any given moment is still unclear.
For riders, a race weekend like this one is a real stress test. Tens of thousands of fans leaving a single venue at once is the kind of surge that can swamp traditional ride-hailing, and it gives Tesla a public look at how its pickup queues, drop-off zones and app hold up under pressure. Tesla also recently shipped Cybercab Live Activity for iPhone and Apple Watch, which lets riders track an incoming car from the lock screen while they wait in a crowd.
Austin is still the core of the program, though not the end of it. Tesla’s latest Robotaxi safety report named four cities coming next, and Tesla has said customer-owned cars running the same software could start joining the network around the second quarter of 2027. Tesla has not shared ride totals or wait times from the race weekend.
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