Big D Is Next: Tesla Says Driverless Cybercab Rides Hit Dallas Next Month

Tesla has put a date on Dallas. On its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, the company said public, unsupervised Cybercab rides will begin in Dallas next month, the first time the two-seat robotaxi will carry paying riders outside Austin.

Ashok Elluswamy, who leads Tesla's AI software, made the announcement during the call, turning what had been a promise without a timetable into a commitment for November. When he first named Dallas as the next Cybercab city earlier this month, Tesla gave no launch date.

Dallas is hardly new ground for the company. Tesla's robotaxi service already runs there with unsupervised Model Y vehicles, and Tesla's new Robotaxi safety report credits the Dallas fleet with 608,130 autonomous miles, second only to Austin's 2,118,015.

That report, which Tesla published on Wednesday on a new Robotaxi website, put the fleet's total at 3.1 million autonomous miles as of 18 October, including 862,000 miles after dark, 113,000 in rain and 575,000 in rush hour. Elluswamy said on X that the figure had since passed 3.3 million. The report lists no people injured by a Tesla robotaxi, no airbag deployments and no pedestrians or cyclists hit.

The same site lists four more cities as coming soon: Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Phoenix and San Antonio. The official Robotaxi account on X repeated the list on Wednesday evening. Tesla's robotaxis now operate in Austin, Dallas and Houston in Texas, and in Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida, according to the report.

The Cybercab itself is moving toward a wider market. "We're trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of this year, 2026," Lars Moravy, Tesla's vice president of vehicle engineering, said on the call. "We're producing them on our line in Texas, but all of those are currently going to our own internal Robotaxi fleet."

Tesla also laid out a path for its own drivers to join in. Elluswamy said unsupervised Full Self-Driving could begin reaching customer-owned cars in select parts of the United States around the second quarter of 2027, and that those owners could then add their cars to the robotaxi network. He noted that the Cybercab and the Model Y run the same driving software.

The pace has picked up sharply. Tesla's quarterly update said cumulative unsupervised miles grew roughly eightfold in the third quarter, a period that included the start of public Cybercab rides in Austin on 3 September. Texas records tracked by fleet watchers on X now show more than 850 Tesla robotaxis registered in the state, about 350 of them Cybercabs.

For Dallas riders, the change will be easy to spot. The Model Ys they hail today have a steering wheel and pedals. The gold Cybercab has neither, just two seats, a large screen and a hatch for luggage, and next month it starts picking up riders in Dallas.