Majority Rules: Cybercab Overtakes Model Y In Tesla's Texas Robotaxi Fleet

AUSTIN, Texas - The car with no steering wheel is now the majority. Tesla's purpose-built Cybercab has overtaken the Model Y on the company's Texas Robotaxi roster for the first time, barely four weeks after the first Cybercabs appeared on the state's books.

The crossover came on Tuesday afternoon, Central time, when 81 Cybercabs landed on the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles list of automated vehicles in a single update. That lifted Tesla's registered Texas fleet from 970 to 1,051 and its Cybercab count from 463 to 544, against 507 Model Ys. Nic Cruz Patane, who tracks the state data, put the split at 52 percent Cybercab and 48 percent Model Y.

"This happened MUCH sooner than I thought," Patane wrote. "Cybercab is ramping pretty darn quickly."

The registrations did not stop there. Overnight batches took the roster to 1,080 vehicles by Wednesday morning, with 573 Cybercabs, according to the Whole Mars FSD Database tracker, which counted 110 new registrations in 24 hours. Joe Hansen's daily tally shows that every one of the 29 vehicles added since Tuesday's count is a Cybercab, putting the purpose-built car 66 units ahead of the Model Y.

The Model Y figure has sat at 507 since at least last weekend. All of Tesla's recent growth in Texas is coming from the Cybercab line. Hansen's figures show 277 vehicles added in the past seven days and 534 in the past 30. The Cybercab count was 169 on 2 October and 319 on 9 October.

When CyberCab.news reported the 970 milestone on Saturday, the Cybercab needed another 45 registrations to pass the Model Y. It got there in three days, with room to spare.

The broader race is tightening too. Hansen's chart puts Waymo's registered Texas fleet at 1,207, a gap Tesla has closed to 127 vehicles. At the past week's pace, the Robotaxi roster could pass that figure within days, not weeks.

These are state registrations, not a live count of cars carrying paid riders. Texas asks automated vehicle operators to file each car with the state, and a Cybercab on the list may still be in testing, parked in a fleet lot or waiting for its first fare. Tesla has not published an official fleet number. What the roster does show is plain: the factory is now feeding Texas streets with Cybercabs, not Model Ys, and doing it faster every week.