Live
Eight Times Over: Tesla Says 300-Plus Cybercabs Now Serve Austin, One Month InEight Times Over: Tesla Says 300-Plus Cybercabs Now Serve Austin, One Month InRecord Board: Austin Cybercab Sightings Hit 912 on X Takeover SaturdayRecord Board: Austin Cybercab Sightings Hit 912 on X Takeover SaturdayCrowd Test: Cybercab Waits Stayed Short Through X Takeover WeekendCrowd Test: Cybercab Waits Stayed Short Through X Takeover WeekendX Takeover Verdict: More Cybercabs Kept Austin Waits Short When It CountedX Takeover Verdict: More Cybercabs Kept Austin Waits Short When It CountedFair Park Stop: A Gold Cybercab Is on Display at the State Fair of TexasFair Park Stop: A Gold Cybercab Is on Display at the State Fair of TexasDallas Next: Tesla Confirms Public Cybercab Rides Are ComingDallas Next: Tesla Confirms Public Cybercab Rides Are Coming81 Percent Driverless: Austin Cybercab Share Hits a New High on a Quiet Weekday81 Percent Driverless: Austin Cybercab Share Hits a New High on a Quiet WeekdayAlmost Half: Cybercab Now Makes Up 43 Percent of Tesla's Texas Robotaxi FleetAlmost Half: Cybercab Now Makes Up 43 Percent of Tesla's Texas Robotaxi FleetEve of X Takeover: More Cybercabs and Short Waits Meet a City Full of FansEve of X Takeover: More Cybercabs and Short Waits Meet a City Full of FansOvernight Double: Tesla Adds a Record 150 Cybercabs, Texas Count Hits 319Overnight Double: Tesla Adds a Record 150 Cybercabs, Texas Count Hits 319Gold Rush in Bellevue: A Record 24 Cybercabs Pack Tesla's Washington Robotaxi LotGold Rush in Bellevue: A Record 24 Cybercabs Pack Tesla's Washington Robotaxi LotShape Locked In: Tesla Wins a U.S. Design Patent for the Cybercab Body It Filed a Day Before the Big RevealShape Locked In: Tesla Wins a U.S. Design Patent for the Cybercab Body It Filed a Day Before the Big RevealEight Straight: Cybercab Is Often the Quicker Tesla to Hail in AustinEight Straight: Cybercab Is Often the Quicker Tesla to Hail in AustinShowtime at Giga Texas: X Takeover Weekend Is the Cybercab's Biggest Audition YetShowtime at Giga Texas: X Takeover Weekend Is the Cybercab's Biggest Audition YetNew Floor: Austin Cybercab Sightings Hold Near 560 After Festival WeekendNew Floor: Austin Cybercab Sightings Hold Near 560 After Festival WeekendThree Cities, One Tuesday: Cybercab Turns Up Across the NortheastThree Cities, One Tuesday: Cybercab Turns Up Across the NortheastHome Grown: Cybercab Is Built in the Same City Where Riders Hail ItHome Grown: Cybercab Is Built in the Same City Where Riders Hail ItTake the Time, Tesla: The NHTSA Extension Is the Smart Play for CybercabTake the Time, Tesla: The NHTSA Extension Is the Smart Play for Cybercab
Cybercab.News

ROBOTAXI · Robotaxi

Record Board: Austin Cybercab Sightings Hit 912 on X Takeover Saturday

CybercabSpotter logged 912 Austin Cybercab sightings on Saturday, with 766 tagged driverless. That beats the prior all-time high of 868 from Austin City Limits weekend and lands an 84 percent driverless share.

Harper Quinn, Live desk

Published · 2 min read

A gold Tesla Cybercab parked at night beside event lighting in Austin
Photo via @DirtyTesLa / X

AUSTIN, Texas - The Cybercab street board just jumped again. CybercabSpotter, the crowd-sourced tracking account that tallies Austin sightings, posted a new record on Sunday morning: 912 Cybercab sightings logged in the city on Saturday, 10 October, with 766 of them tagged driverless.

Daily Austin Cybercab sightings board: 912 total, 766 driverless on Saturday, a new record. Chart via @CybercabSpotter / X
Daily Austin Cybercab sightings board: 912 total, 766 driverless on Saturday, a new record. Chart via @CybercabSpotter / X

That total tops the previous all-time high of 868, set on Saturday, 3 October, during the first Austin City Limits festival weekend. The driverless count is a new high as well. About 84 percent of Saturday's sightings were tagged without a safety monitor in the seat, above the 81 percent weekday share record logged earlier this week.

Saturday was not a quiet calendar day. Tesla fans were in town for X Takeover at Giga Texas, and riders were still reporting short Cybercab waits even as crowds left the event. A busy fan weekend that still clears a new sightings high is the opposite of a thin board.

A gold Cybercab at an Austin event. Photo via @DirtyTesLa / X
A gold Cybercab at an Austin event. Photo via @DirtyTesLa / X

The comparator that matters is the last big weekend. ACL Saturday's 868 had been the ceiling. Before that festival, no day had topped 440. The weekday floor near 560 held after the festival crowds left. Saturday's 912 shows the board can still climb when demand and attention both rise.

Read the figures with care. A sighting is a report, not a car, and one Cybercab can be logged many times as it crosses town. The counts are not a Tesla fleet number. Tesla does not publish how many Cybercabs it runs in Austin on any given day. Separately, Tesla's own Robotaxi account said on Saturday that more than 300 Cybercabs are now serving Austin, an eightfold rise in 30 days.

What the Spotter board adds is the street rhythm: how often those cars show up in public reports, and how often they roll unsupervised. On X Takeover Saturday both columns set records.

Austin remains the only city where the public can pay for a Cybercab ride through Tesla's Robotaxi app. A 912-sighting Saturday with an 84 percent driverless share is the clearest weekend proof yet that the unsupervised Cybercab look is holding under event load.

Harper Quinn covers Cybercab robotaxi launches, Austin fleet ops, and the day-to-day of street boards versus live hail. Based in Austin.

More in Robotaxi

The desk

Dispatches before the doors lift

Austin, Giga Texas, and the Robotaxi map. Short notes when something actually moves.