By now, you’re\u00a0probably used to seeing those familiar white\u00a0Waymos in San Antonio with nobody behind the wheel. And while Austin has been seeing more and more self-driving\u00a0Teslas since the company launched its Robotaxis last year, the Alamo City may be next on the list.<\/p>\n
In a Reddit<\/a>\u00a0post, one user claimed to have seen a lot full of\u00a0Cybercabs at a Tesla center here in San Antonio. The\u00a0Cybercab is Tesla’s latest answer to the Waymo, soon joining the\u00a0fleet that first launched in the Capital City in June 2025 and expanded to Houston and Dallas\u00a0in April.<\/p>\n Currently, Tesla’s Robotaxi service is built on a fleet of modified Model\u00a0Y SUVs<\/a>. In Austin, the fleet started out with human supervisors in the front seat, but later moved to unsupervised rides<\/a>. Still, the number of Tesla Robotaxis in the Lone Star State is pretty\u00a0small \u2014 just 42 to Waymo’s 577, according to filings<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n However, Tesla sees the two-seater\u00a0Cybercab 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<\/a>. The\u00a0Cybercab, designated a level 4, is what the company calls “purpose-built,” designed to be fully autonomous and unsupervised.<\/p>\n How does that compare to Waymo? Tesla’s approach to the tech differs greatly from\u00a0Waymo 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.<\/p>\n In the replies to\u00a0the 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<\/a> only in Austin, Dallas and Houston, Texas, as well as Tampa, Miami and Orlando, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n