By now, you’re probably used to seeing those familiar white Waymos in San Antonio with nobody behind the wheel. And while Austin has been seeing more and more self-driving Teslas since the company launched its Robotaxis last year, the Alamo City may be next on the list.
In a Reddit post, one user claimed to have seen a lot full of Cybercabs at a Tesla center here in San Antonio. The Cybercab is Tesla’s latest answer to the Waymo, soon joining the fleet that first launched in the Capital City in June 2025 and expanded to Houston and Dallas in April.
Currently, Tesla’s Robotaxi service is built on a fleet of modified Model Y SUVs. In Austin, the fleet started out with human supervisors in the front seat, but later moved to unsupervised rides. Still, the number of Tesla Robotaxis in the Lone Star State is pretty small — just 42 to Waymo’s 577, according to filings. Tesla has also said that most of its self-driving vehicles are level 2, meaning a human driver should be able to take control at any time. Waymo’s, by comparison, are all level 4, meaning the car handles all driving tasks on its own.
However, Tesla sees the two-seater Cybercab as its next generation, reportedly testing a steering wheel-less, pedal-less production version in Austin while other cities have seen prototype tests, according to TechCrunch. The Cybercab, designated a level 4, is what the company calls “purpose-built,” designed to be fully autonomous and unsupervised.
How does that compare to Waymo? Tesla’s approach to the tech differs greatly from Waymo in that CEO Elon Musk’s vehicles “see” the road with cameras only, as opposed to Waymo’s connective tissue of LiDAR (beams of laser light used to measure distance to an object) and radar on top of cameras.
In the replies to the Reddit post, a few locals said they’ve spotted the conspicuous Cybercabs out and about in places like Highway 281 and San Pedro Avenue in recent days. That would mark an expansion for the electric vehicle giant, as its Robotaxi service currently offers rides only in Austin, Dallas and Houston, Texas, as well as Tampa, Miami and Orlando, Florida.
So what’s next? Musk said in a Q2 discussion last week that the company’s “goals are very ambitious” for Robotaxi. Without mentioning San Antonio by name, he and other Tesla leaders did say that the company is trying to scale the service upwards, looking at expanding to whole states rather than just city-by-city. So when could Cybercabs officially hit the road? Time will tell.
MySA reached out to Tesla for comment, but did not hear back at the time of publication.