Tesla Plans to Open Cybercab Robotaxi Rides to Public This Month

According to a report on August 20, Tesla plans to launch public trial rides of its autonomous taxi, Cybercab, in Austin, Texas, by the end of August 2026. The service currently primarily uses Model Y vehicles. The Cybercab was officially unveiled at Tesla’s “We, Robot” event in October 2024 and is specifically designed for fully driverless operation. Over the past few months, Tesla has been testing Cybercabs on public roads and conducted employee trial rides in July 2026 on private roads near its Austin headquarters. Additionally, Tesla has recently provided training to local emergency responders in the Austin area on handling Cybercab-related incidents and emergency procedures. A research note by JPMorgan analyst Rajat Gupta indicated that Tesla is deliberately limiting the number of Model Y vehicles entering its Robotaxi service to accelerate the deployment scale of Cybercabs. Tesla stated that its upcoming Full Self-Driving (FSD) V15 system will deliver significant performance improvements, incorporating seven core technologies—approximately 40% of which have already been tested in its current Robotaxi fleet, with initial feedback being positive. Tesla described FSD V15 as the primary gateway to expanding unsupervised FSD services and confirmed that the existing AI/Hardware 4 (HW4) computing platform is capable of supporting both the new software version and unsupervised FSD functionality.