Real Enough to Photograph, Not Real Enough to Hail , Yet
Cybercab is doing that thing Tesla does when a product is finished enough to put on a pedestal but not finished enough to put you inside one and take you somewhere. The two-seater with the butterfly doors and zero steering wheel is currently on a worldwide display tour Japan, China, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand next year. Meanwhile the only place on Earth you can actually pay for a Cybercab ride is a small geofenced pocket of Austin, Texas. That gap global showroom versus one American city is basically the whole story right now.
Japan Got There First
Tesla Japan opened the Asia leg with four stops: [B]Tokyo Aoyama (Sept 11–14), Osaka Grand Front (Sept 17–20), Nagoya Noritake (Sept 22–23), and Shinjuku (Sept 26–28)[/B]. Come look, take photos, sit in the seats. Just don't expect anyone to hand you a fare.
China Got Windows, Not a Service
Beijing's Huamao store ran the car Sept 17th–27th. Shanghai's HKRI Taikoo Hui ran Sept 17–21. Tesla was unusually direct about this one on Weibo and in local press: display only. No China sales. No China robotaxi. The car shows up so people can walk around it, then it leaves. Hong Kong got its own stop too, at the ELEMENTS mall, part of the same Asia display package.
Australia Is Playing the Long Game
This is the biggest tour by far. Tesla's official Australia page lists seven cities, fourteen locations, running September through December. Sydney opened it Sept 21st across three locations - Alexandria, then Parramatta, then Chatswood. Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Canberra follow in October. Melbourne and Adelaide in November. Perth in December. Auckland, New Zealand joins the list in 2027. Tesla's actual message down under is close to: come see the future of transport, then go drive a Model 3 or Y with FSD Supervised, because that's what's legal there today. Australian design rules still require a steering wheel on anything registered for the road. So this isn't a launch it's a rolling sculpture exhibit. If you're keeping score: rides happen in one small part of the United States. Looking happens across half the Pacific Rim.
Meanwhile, Back in Austin
Gigafactory Texas built the first production Cybercab back in February, with continuous production following in April. The line runs on Tesla's "unboxed" modular manufacturing approach small footprint, gold cars stacking up in the outbound lot, installed capacity north of 125,000 units a year. The real bottleneck, same as it's been for the Tesla Semi, is still 4680 battery cell supply. Paid Cybercab rides actually started in Austin on September 3rd–4th, following a quiet event at ACL Live no livestream, no Musk in the room, just awesome displays and a stage. Early official registration put the fleet at roughly 45 Cybercabs in Texas. This week, Tesla's Robotaxi account posted that Cybercab #67 had joined the Austin fleet. That's real growth.
The wider Robotaxi network is still mostly Model Y vehicles Dallas, Houston, Tampa, Miami, with permits moving in Arizona and Nevada. Musk has talked about reaching a dozen states by year-end. The Bay Area still requires a safety driver. Cybercab itself stays Austin-limited for now: two seats, no kids under 13, and it still won't take the freeway.The Clock NHTSA Just Started
NHTSA opened an evaluation the same week Austin rides began, then issued a Special Order on September 10th , Tesla has to prove, under oath, how a car with no steering wheel, no pedals, and no mirrors meets federal rules that were written assuming a human driver. The deadline is September 30th. An audit isn't a ban. It's a clock. Tesla has also quietly opened a partner interest form , fleet purchase, mobility hubs, an "other" category and according to an internal engineering lead, submissions are already in the tens of thousands. Pricing and revenue split aren't public yet. So the U.S. picture right now is really three layers stacked on top of each other: a tiny paid Cybercab zone in Austin, a much bigger Model Y robotaxi footprint across several states, and a long list of companies trying to get in before the regulatory picture even finishes forming.
Where MyCybercab.com Fits Into All This
Official Tesla channels will tell you the tour dates and the Austin geofence boundaries. They won't tell you the car just rolled past a gas station in Salt Lake City, or sat parked outside a Chick-fil-A on Parmer Lane in Austin. That's the actual job of this site.
MyCybercab.com is the community map pin the car, drop a photo, timestamp it, watch the city board move in real time. As of this week the board sits at 450 sightings across 172 cities. Pittsburgh is, in the top spot. Austin sits right behind it, which tracks given it's the only city with actual paid rides. Houston, San Diego, Salt Lake City, and the Bay Area are all active. New Orleans logged a sighting just hours before this article went up.
Our Other Website, TeslaSemi.com, tracks the same kind of question for Tesla's semi truck is this thing actually in my town yet, or just in a press release.
What's Still Missing
Fares and rider reviews are the next pieces we're building. The homepage still shows an average fare of zero dollars, simply because that data layer isn't live yet /prices and /reviews are coming as more cities come online and real ride data starts flowing in. Once Austin rides start generating real receipts, that's the number people are actually going to want to refresh daily. Until then, this site works as the unofficial atlas tour car versus test mule versus actual working robotaxi, sorted city by city, so a showroom stop in Osaka and an actual paid ride in Austin don't get flattened into the same headline. If you spot one a mall display in Osaka, a storefront in Beijing, a showroom in Sydney, or a gold two-seater doing loops around downtown Salt Lake City, Utah - log it. The world tour is loud. The map is how you tell whether it actually stayed.
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