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Half the Fleet: Cybercabs Now Make Up 47 Percent of Tesla's Driverless Austin Cars
An independent tracker counts 335 Tesla Robotaxis running in Austin with no safety driver, and 159 of them are purpose-built Cybercabs. A separate counter logged 34 new Cybercabs on the road in a single day.
Harper Quinn, Live desk
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AUSTIN, Texas - The car with no steering wheel is closing in on half of Tesla's driverless fleet in Austin. Robotaxi Tracker, an independent dashboard that logs Tesla Robotaxis seen in service, showed on Monday afternoon that 335 Tesla cars are running in Austin with no safety driver. Of those, 159 are Cybercabs. That is 47 percent of the fleet.
The rest are 176 Model Y robotaxis. The tracker said the unsupervised Austin fleet has grown by 134 cars in the past 30 days, and that 117 of those additions were Cybercabs. In other words, almost nine in ten new driverless cars Tesla has put on Austin streets in the last month were the purpose-built two-seater.
The pace picked up over the weekend. A separate Cybercab Counter run by Pioneerlands, shared on X by Jo Bhakdi, listed 159 Cybercabs on the road on Monday, up 34 in one day and up 104 in one week. Bhakdi's summary was short: "Tesla keeps ramping its Cybercabs up."
Both counts sit below the 319 Cybercabs on the Texas state books. That registration list did not move on Monday, and the counter showed no new rows in the past day after a record batch of 150 last week. Herbert Ong, who covers Tesla on X, put the gap plainly: Texas has 319 registered, "so roughly half aren't on the road yet."
The trackers also measure something narrower than Tesla's own number. Tesla's Robotaxi account said on Saturday that more than 300 Cybercabs now serve Austin. Robotaxi Tracker counts only cars it has logged carrying out unsupervised service. A car still running with a monitor aboard, or sitting in a fleet lot, does not show up in its 159.
Ong called the shift easy to miss. "Cybercab growth in Austin is happening faster than most people notice," he wrote, citing ARK Invest analyst Sam Korus, who expects the Cybercab to pass 10 percent of Austin's ride-hail vehicles before most of the city notices. "Most people never look at fleet counts," Ong added. "They notice when the car that shows up has no driver."
The tracker shows Tesla with 470 Robotaxis across seven cities, led by Austin with 335 and Dallas with 67. Austin remains the only city where riders can pay for a Cybercab trip through Tesla's app, and Dallas is next. If the past week holds, the next round number on the Austin board is the day Cybercabs outnumber the Model Y.
