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Fourth Stop in Utah: Cybercab Turns Up in South Salt Lake
A gold Cybercab wearing Texas plates was photographed in South Salt Lake and shared on Monday, the fourth Utah city to log a test car in about a month. Tesla does not run Robotaxi service in Utah.
Sam Ellison, Live desk
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SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah - A gold Tesla Cybercab has turned up in South Salt Lake, the latest stop in a run of test sightings along the Wasatch Front. TeslaZoa, an X account that follows Tesla news, posted the photo early Monday and wrote that a Cybercab "just popped up in South Salt Lake." It shows the two-seat coupe on a wide commercial street in front of a Chrysler and Jeep showroom, with a Texas license plate on the back.
Robotaxi Radar, which keeps a running list of Cybercab sightings, said South Salt Lake is the fourth Utah location to report one within the last month, after Pleasant Grove, Draper and West Jordan. All four sit in the stretch of cities that runs south from Salt Lake City toward Provo.
Draper has drawn the biggest group. On Sept. 20, an X user who posts as jer_jensen counted more than 20 Cybercabs parked together in a Draper business park. He wrote that several had also been seen driving on nearby freeways and local roads. Robotaxi Radar later described the site as a Robotaxi hub with cars ready for testing.
On Sept. 30, another X user replied to Radar with a photo from West Jordan. It shows a gold Cybercab in traffic with the mountains behind it and a person visible in the front of the cabin, the usual sign of a supervised test car.
The Salt Lake area has been on the map since summer. TownLift, a Park City news site, photographed a Cybercab test vehicle at Bonanza Drive and Deer Valley Drive on Sept. 11. It also reported a sighting in American Fork on Aug. 24 and said a community tracker had logged 14 reports around Salt Lake City since early August.
Utah makes room for this kind of testing. According to TownLift, the state does not require a special permit for autonomous vehicle testing. Under House Bill 101, companies certify to the state that their vehicles follow the rules of the road. State leaders have also looked at robotaxis for the 2034 Winter Games. During the 2026 legislative session, Rep. Matt MacPherson asked for $10 million for a Utah Department of Transportation pilot to lease them.
None of that is a launch. Tesla does not operate Robotaxi rides in Utah and has not named a date for the state. Paid Cybercab trips remain Austin only. Tesla's Robotaxi service also runs Model Y vehicles in Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa.
For people in the Salt Lake Valley, the chances of seeing one are going up. The sightings have spread from a single business park in Draper to ordinary streets across the valley, and the next new pin on the map could come from any driver with a phone.
