Park it. Charge it. Earn from it.

DockDuty is the independent Cybercab depot network for private owners. You keep the title. We park, charge, clean and dispatch the car from a DockDuty stall, and you watch it earn from anywhere.

Own from anywhere, even overseas We run the car You keep the title

How much can a Cybercab make? Run your numbers

Where this actually stands The owner software is live today. No customer Cybercab is earning yet. Tesla has publicly described owner-supplied vehicles and revenue sharing as part of its future Robotaxi model. That program is not live, and its final terms and timing are unpublished.

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DockDuty
DockDuty
Owner dashboard
Live demo · simulated fleet
DEMO
Today’s earnings
$142.80
+$24 this trip
See the live demo
Live owner dashboard you can try now Tesla Fleet API integrated Stripe live: deposits & refunds Built for Florida’s TNC framework (FS §627.748) Deposits fully refundable
Where we actually are

Built, paid for, and checkable.

50 / 50
Founding stalls reserved before launch, network-wide
13
Stalls in the largest single order
Live
Owner platform, open demo, no login
Fleet API
Tesla integration, real telemetry tested
~14
Metros with registered owner demand

The stall count is live from the same API that enforces the 50-stall cap: audit the order book, or open the dashboard. Stripe is processing real reservations today; deposits stay refundable until a vehicle is onboarded. No depot is operating yet and no customer vehicle is earning, Orlando is targeted for Q4 2026.

Already running

Not a mockup. Running today.

The dashboard, the map, the per-vehicle commands, all live in production right now. This isn’t a screenshot. It’s the real owner platform with sample fleet data so you can poke around without an account.

Real

The software, the interface, the Tesla Fleet API integration, and live Stripe payments and refunds. What you are looking at is production, not a prototype.

Simulated

Every trip, event and dollar figure in the demo fleet. No customer-owned Cybercab is earning today. The Cybercab is not delivered and our first depot is not built.

app.dockduty.com/demo
Tap to open the live demo 5 sample Cybercabs · live map · no login
Live GPS map with status pins, trip paths, and battery state per car.
Real-time telemetry via Tesla Fleet API streaming, SSE-pushed within seconds.
Stripe Connect Express for owner payouts: bank linking is live; monthly transfers start when cabs are earning.
Vehicle commands: lock/unlock/honk/flash/climate/charge/windows/nav dispatch, signed end-to-end.
Per-vehicle Glovebox: insurance, registration, maintenance, photos, 25 MB per file.
Earnings + charging analytics with trip mini-maps and live "this month so far" ticker.
Open the live demo No login. No card. Pan the map, click a pin.
What this looks like in production

And from that same dashboard,
a real charging session.

Snapshot from the operator dashboard: one of our test vehicles charging on the platform, May 10, 2026. Energy delivered is read directly from Tesla’s onboard charging meter, not estimated.

app.dockduty.com/dashboard/admin/owners/.../charging
Charging

Energy flowing through the depot.

1 of 1 sessions metered directly by Tesla. Live numbers update via SSE.

Live draw
3.8 kW
1 car charging now
Today
2.37 kWh
1 session · $0.36
This month
2.37 kWh
1 session · $0.36
Metered share
100%
1 of 1 read from Tesla's meter
Charging right now live · auto-refreshes
Test vehicle
Internal · pre-launch
3.8 kW
94% · 44m to full · 241V
Vehicle Started Battery Energy Peak Cost
Test vehicle Live AC May 10, 9:21 PM in progress from 94% 2.37 kWh ✓ Metered 3.9 kW $0.36

Real numbers from real Tesla telemetry on one of our test vehicles. The same panel scales as we onboard Cybercabs at depot #1: one row per session, every session metered by Tesla’s onboard charging meter, every kWh accounted for.

How it works

Park. Charge. Reset.
Repeat.

Your Cybercab pulls in between rides. We park it. We charge it. We reset it. One car or fifty, same job, every time.

1 Park

Secure dock, your stall.

Fenced lot at depot #1, targeted for Orlando. Your Cybercab gets its own stall. Cameras will run 24/7. We’ll carry garage-keeper coverage on every car in our care.

Monthly retainer
2 Charge

Charged on-site, every stall.

The Cybercab as it exists today takes DC power only, through a NACS port: there is no onboard AC charger, so a home wall connector cannot charge it. Every DockDuty stall is planned around DC charging, with conduit sized for the wireless pads Tesla has described. No Supercharger detours, no home install.

Included in your retainer
CLEAN CALIB DISP
3 Reset

Cleaned, calibrated, dispatched.

Interior wash between rides. Sensor cleaning. Software updates pushed and verified. Then your car goes back on the network: Tesla’s, ours, parcel routes in Year 2.

Monthly retainer + 13–15% of gross ride revenue

What is a Cybercab depot?

A Cybercab depot is a physical facility that handles the between-rides work for a fleet of Tesla Cybercabs: parking, charging, cleaning, dispatch coordination, and incident response. Tesla makes the cars; depot operators like DockDuty run the operations layer underneath. The full explainer is on our Cybercab depot page, and we cover the wider category in what an AV depot actually does. If you own a fleet of Cybercabs (one car or fifty), a depot is the difference between earning passively and running a logistics business on the side.

More: depots vs. fleet software, and the Florida-first plan

Physical depot vs. fleet management software: software platforms manage data about your fleet. A physical Cybercab depot actually parks, charges, and dispatches the cars. DockDuty is a depot operator: building the lots, on-site charging, cleaning operations, and 24-hour incident response. We’re not a SaaS dashboard with a logo.

Florida-first, then spread out fast: Our first dock is targeted to open in Orlando in Q4 2026. Miami breaks ground when Orlando hits ~80% reserved and operating (5–10 stalls left of 50). Once the Orlando operating playbook is proven, Miami and Tampa can be in build-out in parallel. We don’t wait for sequential triggers. Florida has the most permissive autonomous-vehicle law in the country (FS §316.85); from there we expand wherever the Cybercab market opens. Every new metro that turns on autonomous-vehicle ride-hailing needs a depot operator, and we’re built to follow the cars. If you’re weighing the options today, we walk through where to park your fleet of Cybercabs on the blog.

01
Onboard in a single visit
Bring your Cybercab to depot #1 when it opens. We verify titling, your commercial insurance policy, and pair it with our dispatch system. Baseline maintenance check, then it’s on the active fleet.
02
We run the dock
Charging, cleaning, software updates, incident response, dispatch across networks. You get a real-time dashboard showing utilization, revenue, and any maintenance flags.
03
Get paid monthly
Projected owner take-home of $2,231–$3,114/month per car if you’re financing, or $2,825–$3,708 if you paid cash, at 65–80% utilization on the 1–2 cab Priority Owner rate, after our fee and your overhead. Run your own numbers; direct deposit on the 1st once your cab is live.

Drop your car off, then log in as much or as little as you want. You get paid either way. Final figures depend on Cybercab launch pricing, ride mix, and Tesla launching customer-owner participation under commercially workable terms.

The dock network

Priority Owner reservations are open. Pick your metro.

This round is open at Priority Owner rates: one spot per owner or LLC, however many cars. Orlando Depot #2 is first and Florida fills first, but every metro below is open; depots come in 50-car books, and another opens whenever one fills, so there is no cap on fleet size. Same $450 refundable deposit; reservation order decides who onboards first at each depot.

The first 50 stalls sold out before the first depot opened, closed by a single 13-stall fleet order, paid and executed through this flow. Orlando Depot #2 is open now at Priority Owner rates: one Priority Owner spot per owner or LLC, 50-car depots that open one after another as each fills, Florida first, no cap on fleet size.

This round is open network-wide at Priority Owner rates, one spot per owner or LLC; depots come in 50-car books that open one after another as each fills, no cap on fleet size. Your $450 is fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded and credits in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. Own from anywhere; you don’t have to live in Florida, or even in the US.

The bigger picture

One depot proves the model.
The network creates the company.

Orlando is the target for node one, not the plan. Every metro that opens to autonomous vehicles creates the same recurring physical need, and that need cannot be served from a head office. It has to exist locally, in every market, which is what makes it both repeatable and hard to displace.

Orlando is the only depot DockDuty is working to open. Miami and Tampa are named on the roadmap with a published trigger; the other metros on this page collect owner reservations as demand. No further location is committed.

ParkingStaging that isn’t a driveway or a street
ChargingWhere the car already is, between rides
CleaningInterior resets on a rider-visible schedule
DispatchCoordinating availability with the network
IncidentsSomeone accountable at 2am, locally
ReportingTelemetry and earnings the owner can see
Concept layout · Orlando Dock 1

Walk the dock.

A ~6,000 sq ft corner lot, laid out for one thing: turning a returning Cybercab back into an earning one, fast. Tap a number to see what happens there. Illustrative concept, not a final site plan.

1GATE2INTAKE & INSPECTION3DC CHARGING STALLS4DETAIL BAY5STAGING LANE6DISPATCH & OPSSWITCHGEAR
Concept layout ~6,000 sq ft 14 stalls drawn Not a final site plan
Walk the dock

Drawn to the target spec, not to a signed lease. No depot is operating, no customer vehicle is on site, and the vehicles shown are illustrations of the Cybercab as Tesla has presented it, not photographs. DockDuty is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc.

The economics, projected

If Tesla hits their cost target,
autonomy lands ~90% under Waymo.

The case for AV fleets (and for the dock that supports them) comes down to cost-per-mile. None of these numbers are operating yet: the ~$0.20/mi figure is a long-term operating-cost target Elon Musk stated at Tesla’s October 10, 2024 “We, Robot” Cybercab reveal, a forward-looking statement, not measured fleet performance. Tesla’s Q3 2024 shareholder deck describes the same goal (“a cost per mile below rideshare, personal car ownership and even public transit”) without attaching a number, and no Tesla SEC filing states $0.20. DockDuty uses it as a modeling assumption; actual costs could differ materially.

Personal car
$0.77
per mile · AAA 2025 average
Uber / Lyft
$1.75
per mile · typical urban fare, our estimate
Waymo
$2.00
per mile · Bay Area Jan 2026
Cybercab target
$0.20
per mile · Tesla operating cost
The math, on your terms

Run your numbers.

Choose your fleet size, utilization, financing, and what Tesla keeps. We’ll show you the projected monthly economics.

Your assumptions

How many Cybercabs
Utilization
Financing
Tesla network share
30%

An assumption, not a published rate. Tesla has said nothing since Elon Musk’s April 2019 remark of 25 to 30 percent; we model 30% as the ceiling.

Your projected monthly take-home
$4,462
Annualized: $53,544

Avg daily revenue
$255
Days to cover overhead
~13
Ride revenue (after our 15%)
$7,650
Monthly overhead
$3,188
Where the month goes 30 days · 2 Cybercabs · 65% utilization
Overhead
Your take-home
Day 1 Day 7 Day 14 Day 21 Day 30
Day 13 overhead cleared
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Fares are modeled at $6,429 per car per month at 65% utilization, about $214 a day. Tesla’s share is the assumption you set above; Tesla has published no rate. Charging, maintenance, and cleaning are assumed to sit inside Tesla’s stated ~$0.20/mi long-term Cybercab operating-cost target from its October 2024 “We, Robot” presentation, a forward-looking cost target, not measured fleet performance.

12-month projection

Cumulative net · first 12 months
Projected cumulative net earnings over the first 12 months.
Projections, not promises, the comparison line is a hypothetical flat 10%/yr on the Cybercab’s ~$30k purchase price, shown for scale only. It is not a real investment, index or fund return. Not investment advice.
Pre-launch projection. Not a guarantee. About this projection
Pre-launch projection. Revenue is shown after Tesla’s network share at the percentage you set (an assumption; Tesla has published no rate, and 30% is the ceiling we model) and after our platform fee at your selected fleet tier (15% at 1–2 cabs, 15% at 3–4, 14% at 5–6, 13% at 7+), and the monthly retainer drops from $550 to $475 per stall across those same tiers. Insurance is modeled at $400/mo per car, the bottom of the $400–$800 AV-policy band; at the top of that band, subtract another $400 per car per month. Financing estimates depend on your underwriting. None of these numbers are guaranteed. They’re modeled on Tesla’s stated ~$0.20/mi long-term Cybercab operating-cost target from its October 2024 “We, Robot” presentation, a forward-looking Tesla statement rather than measured fleet results. They also assume Tesla launches customer-owner participation under commercially workable terms, a dependency outside our control. Tesla has publicly described owner-supplied vehicles and revenue sharing as part of its future Robotaxi model, but the program is not live and its eligibility, revenue split, insurance and hardware requirements are unpublished. Your real numbers will move with Tesla’s actual ride pricing, your utilization, and your specific cost structure.

This is a model, not a guarantee. It rests on three things outside our control: Cybercab shipping in volume, Tesla approaching its stated ~$0.20/mi long-term Cybercab operating-cost target, and, the big one, Tesla launching customer-owner participation under commercially workable terms. Tesla has publicly described owner-supplied vehicles and revenue sharing as part of its future Robotaxi model; what is unpublished is the launch date, eligibility, revenue split, insurance and operating requirements. If any of those doesn’t land, your $450 stays fully refundable, right up until the day your car is actually onboarded, with refunds initiated within 5 business days.

Reserve a stall Take these numbers home · share with your CPA or spouse

Open the full calculator page: rate card, method, and FAQ

Pricing

The bigger your fleet,
the smaller our cut.

Every owner pays a monthly retainer per stall plus a per-ride service fee, and both drop as your fleet grows, on the Priority Owner schedule, from $550/mo and 15% at 1–2 cabs to $475/mo and 13% at 7 cabs and up. The founding class (the first 50 stalls) is closed.

Fleet size
Monthly retainerper stall
Our cutper ride
Savings vs. base
1–2 cabs
$550/mo
15%
Base rate
3–4 cabs
$525/mo
15%
$25/mo per stall
5–6 cabs
$500/mo
14%
$50/mo per stall + 1% per ride
7+ cabs
$475/mo
13%
$75/mo per stall + 2% per ride

Priority Owner rates, for the round open now. The first 50 founding stalls locked $450/$400/$375/$350 per stall at 15/15/13/11% per ride; that class closed on September 5, 2026 and those rates live in the agreements founding owners signed. See the comparison.

Every other fee, what the retainer does and does not cover, and the refund terms are on the full pricing page.

Getting started
$450 reserves your stall. $1,000 onboards your cab.
Reservation: $450. Locks your stall at Orlando Depot #2 or your metro’s depot book and counts toward your onboarding fee. Fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded at the dock.
Onboarding: $1,000 total per cab when your Cybercab arrives. Covers DockDuty’s onboarding services: delivery coordination and local pickup (we coordinate getting the car to our dock), insurance verification, intake inspection (walk-around photos + VIN documentation for our records), and dispatch system pairing. Vehicle price, taxes, registration, insurance premiums, and any third-party freight charges are separate. With the reservation credit applied, $550 is due at intake.

Monthly retainer starts when your cab goes live on the network, billed at your tier above. You pick your metro when you reserve. Stalls are open now at the Priority Owner schedule above; depots come in 50-car books that open one after another as each fills, with no cap on fleet size, and reservation order decides which depot your cars land in.
Reserving five or more stalls?

Stalls are open now at the Priority Owner schedule reserve as many as you need in one checkout, across Orlando Depot #2 and any metro’s depot book, with no cap on fleet size. At five or more cabs the retainer drops to $500/stall and a 14% ride cut, and at seven or more to $475 and 13%.

An LLC, corporation or partnership can be the reserving party. You enter the entity in the flow and it is named on the agreement you sign. Prefer to talk it through first? Tell us about your fleet.

Reserve a stall
Founding rates vs. Priority Owner rates

Founding rates are locked for the first 50.
Priority Owner rates apply now.

The founding class closed on September 5, 2026 with all 50 stalls reserved. Founding owners pay lower monthly rates, written into the agreements they signed rather than into our marketing. Priority Owner stalls are open now: one Priority Owner spot per owner or LLC, Orlando Depot #2 first and another 50-car depot opening in a metro whenever one fills (no cap on fleet size), with the refundable $450-per-vehicle deposit credited in full toward the $1,000 onboarding fee.

The founding book is complete 50 of 50 reserved

The founding book is capped at 50 valid stalls. When the last one is taken, founding rates close and the reserve flow moves to Priority Owner rates; capacity that opens later (a reopened stall or the next depot) sells at the Priority Owner schedule below.

See the founding rate comparison
DockDuty founding rates compared with the current published Priority Owner rate schedule, by fleet size.
Fleet size Founding retainerper vehicle / mo Priority Owner retainerper vehicle / mo Founding service feeper ride Priority Owner service feeper ride
1–2 cabs $450 $550 15% 15%
3–4 cabs $400 $525 15% 15%
5–6 cabs $375 $500 13% 14%
7+ cabs $350 $475 11% 13%

What the difference is worth

The figures below are the fixed retainer difference only, compared against DockDuty’s current published Priority Owner rates. They are a comparison of what you pay us, not a projection of what a vehicle earns, and not a guarantee of any kind.

  • One founding vehicle saves $100 per month, or $1,200 a year, in fixed retainers.
  • Ten founding vehicles save $125 per vehicle per month, or $15,000 a year, in fixed retainers.
  • At 5–6 vehicles the founding service fee is 1 point lower than the Priority Owner fee; at 7 or more it is 2 points lower. What that is worth in dollars depends entirely on ride revenue, so we do not publish it as a figure, the earnings calculator will show it once you enter your own revenue assumption.

Founding rates are set out in Section 4.1 of the Founding Stall Reservation Agreement and, for owners who have signed it, cannot be reduced by later amendment (Section 11.3). Priority Owner rates ship as separate paper and may carry the applicable annual CPI-U adjustment under the governing agreement. Read both before you pay anything.

The paper behind the pitch

Written into the agreement, not the marketing.

Everything below is a section of the Founding Stall Reservation Agreement, the document you e-sign in the reservation flow and receive executed by email after payment. Read it in full before you pay a dollar.

Your money
  • Deposits sit in a segregated account. Held solely for owner reservation deposits, separate from our operating funds, never used for operating expenses. We’ll confirm the arrangement in writing on request. (§2.3)
  • Refundable until the day your car is onboarded. No reason or documentation required. Refunds initiate to your original payment method within 5 business days. (§3.1–3.2)
  • If we fold, refunds are automatic. If we announce we won’t open any depot, or cease operations, every outstanding deposit refunds in full within 30 days. You don’t have to ask. (§3.3)
Your rate
  • Founding rates locked. Your retainer and per-ride fee stay at the founding tiers for as long as you keep at least one vehicle enrolled. Later customers may pay more; founding owners never move. (§4.1)
  • Charging included, no markup. Charging electricity at the depot is part of the retainer: no separate energy bills, session fees, or equipment charges. (§4.1)
Your flexibility
  • A network reservation, not a city bet. When we announce the first depot’s market, you choose: onboard there in order-book priority, wait for your preferred metro with position and benefits unchanged, or take a full refund. (§1.3–1.4)
  • A hard date, in your control. If your first car isn’t onboarded by December 31, 2028 and the delay isn’t on your side, you choose: full refund, or 12-month extensions, at your sole option. (§3.3)
  • Month-to-month by contract floor. The Service Agreement will be month-to-month: no minimum term, no early-termination penalty, exit notice capped at 30 days. (§4.3, §5.2)
Your car
  • Title never moves. Your vehicles stay in your name at all times. Nothing in the agreement transfers any ownership interest to DockDuty. (§4.3)

Only 50 founding stalls exist network-wide, and the agreement bars us from expanding the founding class before the first depot opens without founding owners’ written consent, a promise that can’t be unilaterally changed. (§1.2, §11.3)

The team

Built by operators who ship.

Two cousins built the platform in-house and are self-funding the first location, targeted for Orlando. Jeremy brings software, web development and eight years operating a multi-location repair business; David brings a decade of high-pressure production logistics. Owners reach a founder directly, not a support queue.

Jeremy Hecht
Jeremy Hecht
Chief Strategy Officer
Jeremy built DockDuty’s owner dashboard, reservation flow, telemetry pipeline and marketing site. He also runs PhaseUp Studio and PhoneBros, bringing both product development and real multi-location operating experience.
Software & web development Built the owner platform Multi-location operator Hardware & payments
jeremy@dockduty.com
David Hecht
David Hecht
Chief Executive Officer
David is a member of IATSE Local 695 with a decade running logistics on professional film productions: high-pressure environments where coordination, precision, and rapid problem-solving are the daily standard. That experience translates directly into managing the dock: scheduling, vendor partnerships, and the operational discipline a fleet of autonomous vehicles will demand.
Logistics & coordination Vendor partnerships IATSE Local 695
david@dockduty.com
50
Founding stalls will ever exist, first owners lock the rate
100%
Of the team committing capital alongside owners
Now hiring Dock Manager, Orlando First boots-on-the-ground hire. Run intake, charging, dispatch, and incidents at the launch dock.
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Roadmap

From this page to a dock full of Cybercabs.

Honest milestones: what we’ve already built, what we’re shipping next, and where this goes after Day 1.

Now · pre-launch

Building the operating layer.

  • Owner platform live: try the demo, no login: with Tesla Fleet Telemetry streaming, vehicle commands, trip detection + charging analytics, and Stripe Connect bank onboarding live.
  • Securing the Orlando dock site: lease, charging infrastructure plan, build-out partners.
Q4 2026 · day 1

Orlando dock targeted to open.

  • First founding-customer Cybercabs onboarded: our 3 founder cabs on the network first, reservation deposits credited to onboarding totals, and the first monthly payouts hitting owner bank accounts.
Cascade · Florida

Miami breaks ground (Tampa close behind).

  • Miami dock build-out begins when Orlando hits ~80% reserved and operating (5–10 stalls left of 50). Tampa breaks ground close behind. Once the Orlando operating playbook is proven, Miami and Tampa can be in build-out in parallel rather than strictly sequential.
Beyond Florida

Spread out fast.

  • Beyond Florida as the Cybercab service area opens in new states. We follow the cars.
  • See the DockDuty Network: every market’s status and the owner demand behind it.
Priority Owners

Priority Owner stalls are open. Orlando Depot #2 first.

This round is open network-wide at our published Priority Owner rates, one spot per owner or LLC, however many cars you reserve. Orlando Depot #2 is first, Florida fills first, and every other metro is open too; depots come in 50-car books, and another opens whenever one fills, so there is no cap on fleet size. $450 per cab, fully refundable until your Cybercab is onboarded, credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. We create your owner account and lock your stall in one step on the next page.

Priority Owner rates, on the Priority Owner Reservation Agreement. See the rate card.

Reserve a stall: $450 Priority Owner rates. Fully refundable until onboarding.
Orlando Depot #2 book open · every metro open See the live order book
Not ready to reserve yet?

We’ll keep you posted.

Free, no deposit, about a minute. Stalls are open right now if you are ready. This is for the case where you are not. Tell us how many vehicles and where, and we email you as depots open in your market. It holds no stall and no price. A Priority Reservation does not hold a specific stall, market, or date; we confirm capacity and pricing with you before anything is reserved. Short emails, no spam, unsubscribe with one click.

Add a note for the founders optional

No payment, no card. Occasional depot updates, written by the founders.

Want to talk live? Email a founder directly. We read everything.

Common questions

Things people actually ask.

If your question isn’t here, the founders read every email at support@dockduty.com.

A Cybercab depot (also called a robotaxi depot) is a physical facility that parks, charges, cleans, and dispatches Tesla Cybercabs between rides, so owners earn without running the daily operation. Our first depot is targeted to open in Orlando in Q4 2026, and the owner platform behind it is already live in a public demo, no login required.
Tesla makes cars, not depots. Every fleet before this (airlines, trucking, rental cars) ended up with specialists who handle the between-rides work. A robotaxi depot is that specialist for autonomous fleets, and Cybercab will be the same. Charging, cleaning, dispatch. None of that goes away just because the car drives itself. Someone has to do it. We’re building that operation in Orlando. (More on owning a Cybercab as a fleet vehicle.)
The founding book filled on September 5, 2026. The reserve flow now sells Priority Owner stalls: one Priority Owner spot per owner or LLC, depots of 50 cars that open one after another as each fills (no cap on fleet size), Orlando Depot #2 first. When a stall reopens or the next depot’s capacity comes online, founding owners are contacted first, then Priority Reservation holders in the order received. Owners who reserve through that later capacity pay our Priority Owner rate schedule: $550, $525, $500 and $475 per stall per month at 1–2, 3–4, 5–6 and 7+ cabs, with a 15%, 15%, 14% and 13% per-ride service fee. Founding rates are $450, $400, $375 and $350 with a 15%, 15%, 13% and 11% fee: a fixed difference of $100 per vehicle per month at 1–2 cabs and $125 at every larger tier, which is $1,200 a year for one vehicle and $15,000 a year for ten. Those figures cover the retainer only, because the retainer is the part that does not depend on what a car earns; where founding also carries a lower per-ride fee we state it in points rather than dollars. Founding rates are written into Section 4.1 of the agreements founding owners signed and, once signed, cannot be reduced by a later amendment (Section 11.3). Priority Owner rates are separate paper and may carry the applicable annual CPI-U adjustment. See the full comparison. Nothing here is a projection of earnings.
Soft launch is targeted for Q4 2026 with our 3 founder Cybercabs. Public dock opening targeted for Q4 2026 in Orlando. Founding customer onboarding starts approximately 30 days before the dock opens.
Honestly. They might. Nobody outside Tesla knows the date (we track every promise, dated), so our buildout tracks vehicle availability, not a date on a wall. Your protection doesn’t depend on the timeline: the $450 stays fully refundable until your car is actually onboarded, and if your first car hasn’t onboarded by December 31, 2028 (and the delay isn’t on your side) you choose a full refund or keep extending, at your sole option. The dock itself is OEM-agnostic: it can service any autonomous fleet that needs turnaround between rides. Cybercab is our flagship use case, not our only one.
Tesla has publicly described owner-supplied vehicles and revenue sharing as part of its future Robotaxi model, including in its 2025 proxy statement, but it has described the concept, not launched a program, and no eligibility, insurance, revenue-split or timing terms have been published. If it never launches on workable terms, our flagship use case doesn’t happen, and your money never left the table. The $450 stays refundable until the day your car is onboarded, and the dock is OEM-agnostic: parking, charging, cleaning, and dispatch work for any autonomous fleet, not just Tesla’s. We’d rather name the dependency than pretend it doesn’t exist.
Seven more owner questions
Yes. Your Cybercab stays titled and registered in your home state. You keep your plates and title. You’ll need commercial AV insurance on the car; we help you source it during onboarding. DockDuty will operate the car in Florida under Florida’s TNC framework (FS §627.748), with coverage in force before we take in any vehicle. Live outside the US entirely? That works too. We coordinate a US titling and insurance path at onboarding, and the dashboard is your window from anywhere in the world. (Final terms are reviewed by a Florida transportation attorney before each owner signs.)
Yes, but not at the same time. Cars run on Tesla’s network during peak demand and on ours during off-peak (parcel runs, hotel shuttles when that line activates in Year 2). Owners switch between modes from the dashboard.
Month-to-month from Day 1, no minimum term, no early-termination fees. Give us 30 days’ notice and we’ll have your Cybercab cleaned, fully charged, and ready for pickup or transport at the dock. Final earnings are paid out within 14 days of removal. We earn your business every month, not at signup.
You get every dollar back. If we announce we won’t open any depot, or we cease operations, every outstanding deposit refunds in full: automatically, within 30 days, no application. And you never have to wait for that: your deposit is refundable at your request any time before your car is onboarded, no reason required, initiated within 5 business days. We’d rather you reserve knowing you can change your mind than feel locked into a pre-launch company.
Fenced lot, gates, 24/7 cameras. Our garage-keeper coverage (in force before we take in any car) will handle damage that happens while your car is in our care (parking, charging, cleaning). Out on a ride, your commercial policy covers it (we help you find one). Every handoff between the two is in your agreement before you sign.
Coverage breaks down by where and what:

While in our lot (parking, charging, cleaning): our garage-keeper coverage, bound before we take in any car, will cover damage that happens in our care.

While operating on the network (dispatched on a ride). Your commercial AV policy is the primary coverage, with DockDuty’s TNC contingent coverage layered on top per Florida’s TNC statute.

While you’re using it personally (took it home, road trip). Your own auto coverage applies, just like any private vehicle.

After any incident on our side, you get a full report within 24 hours: photos, what happened, the insurance handling timeline. We don’t hide damage from owners.
Yes, commercial AV insurance on the vehicle is the owner’s responsibility. AV-grade commercial policies typically run $400–$800/month per vehicle depending on coverage limits and your driving record/profile. We help you source it during onboarding through brokers we’ve already vetted (the AV insurance market is small and most generalist brokers can’t write these policies).

DockDuty will carry the surrounding coverage (bound before the dock opens) so you don’t have to:
Garage-keeper coverage for any damage that happens while your car is in our lot
TNC contingent coverage layered on during ride dispatch, per FS §627.748
General business liability for our operations

What this looks like in practice: your commercial premium is part of your monthly overhead (alongside financing if you have it). On our projected model (assuming Tesla’s target operating cost and typical ride volume) a typical owner would cover overhead within the first ~14 days of the month financed (~8 days cash), with the balance flowing to take-home. Real utilization, real insurance quotes, and Cybercab’s actual ride pricing will move that number once we’re live.
Three reasons. (1) Florida has the friendliest AV law in the country. (2) Lake Nona is already an AV hub: Beep, an autonomous-shuttle company, is based there. (3) Theme parks, MCO airport, and 120,000+ hotel rooms mean a lot of short rides every day. Only the Bay Area beats it.

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