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2.2 in Every 1,000: Cybercab Is Now a Regular Sight on Austin Roads
A tracker of Austin traffic counted 2.2 Cybercabs per 1,000 vehicles on Sunday, a new high and up from about 1.3 a week earlier. Waymo's figure in the city usually sits around 3.
Riley Cho, Features writer, Live desk
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AUSTIN, Texas - Here is a number worth knowing: 2.2. That is how many Cybercabs showed up for every 1,000 vehicles counted in Austin on Sunday, according to Ethan McKanna, who posts Austin robotaxi data on X. He called it a new high for the measure, which he describes as Cybercabs per 1,000 vehicles in frame.
The jump came fast. Robotaxi Radar, an account that tracks Tesla's driverless rollout, said the same figure stood at about 1.3 a week earlier. That is a rise of roughly 69 percent in about seven days. Put simply, someone who passed 1,000 vehicles on an Austin street on Sunday would have seen about two Cybercabs among them.
For comparison, McKanna put Waymo's usual figure in Austin at about 3 to 3.4. Radar pointed out that the 2.2 counts only Cybercabs. It leaves out the Model Y vehicles that also carry Tesla Robotaxi riders in the city, so Tesla's full presence on the road is larger than the number suggests.
A second set of counts tells the same story. CybercabSpotter, a crowd-sourced tracking account, logged 821 Cybercab sightings in Austin on Sunday, 605 of them tagged driverless. That came one day after Saturday's record of 868. Radar noted it was the second straight day above 800, after no day had topped 440 before that weekend.
Read both figures with care. A sighting is a report, not a car, and one Cybercab can be logged many times as it crosses town. The per-1,000 measure depends on where and when the vehicles were counted. Neither is a Tesla fleet number.
The two methods still point the same way. Cybercabs are a more common part of Austin traffic than they were a week ago, and they are getting there quickly. Riders are noticing too. On Monday, a rider who posts as BLKMDL3 shared a clip of a Cybercab pulling up at night and wrote that getting picked up by one "is such a cool experience."
Austin remains the only city where the public can pay for a Cybercab ride.
Riley Cho covers Cybercab product details and the numbers behind the rollout. Based in Austin.
