The last ride of the night now leaves at midnight. Tesla's Robotaxi app alerted riders late on Friday, October 16 that rides now run until 12 a.m., and Daniel Aharonoff's The Cybercab Report tracks what the longer day means for the fleet on the Texas registry.

Riders report 6 a.m. to midnight service in Austin, Dallas and Tampa, covering both the purpose-built Cybercab and the Model Y robotaxis. The new close is one hour past the 11 p.m. cutoff Austin moved to at the start of October. Tesla has not announced the change beyond the in-app alert.

A weekend tally of the Texas vehicle registry counts 803 Tesla robotaxis: 454 Model Ys and 349 Cybercabs, with 34 Model Ys added on October 16 alone. A crowd-sourced tracker logged a record 1,072 Cybercab sightings in Austin on Friday, about 86 percent of them driverless.

Context: Austin ran 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. until early October. Elon Musk said the work before later hours was making sure the cars do not hit pets that are hard to see at night. Tesla's AI chief has said the upcoming FSD v15 software is meant to unlock round-the-clock operations, with a fleet rollout targeted for October.

Co-produced by Daniel Aharonoff.

Sources:

CyberCab.News (app alert, rider evidence, registry tally, sightings): https://www.cybercab.news/article/austin-robotaxi-hours-midnight-oct17

Tesla News Wire (hours extension, v15 context): https://teslanewswire.com/articles/tesla-cybercab-austin-hours-midnight-6am-robotaxi-oct-17-2026