Tesla Robotaxi rides began in Fort Worth, Texas at 6 AM on November 2, 2026, its first new city in about three months. Here's the launch geofence map, how it compares to Austin, Houston and Dallas, ride hours, the free first ride, and how to book.
Image: @robotaxi on X
No countdown and no event. Just a single line from Tesla's official Robotaxi account on Sunday night: "Robotaxi available in Fort Worth starting tomorrow, 6am." At 6 AM Central this morning, Fort Worth became Tesla's newest Robotaxi city. It is the company's first new market in about three months, and the fourth in Texas after Austin, Dallas and Houston.
Fort Worth also opens with a very large zone. At an estimated 143 square miles, its launch geofence is almost twice the size of Dallas's current service area, and it is bigger than any other city Tesla has launched outside Austin and Houston.
The zone is a single large shape centered on downtown Fort Worth, where I-30 and I-35W meet. From there:
Judging by the map, the zone takes in most of the places visitors and locals actually go: downtown and Sundance Square, the near-north side toward the Stockyards, the Cultural District west of downtown, and the neighborhoods around TCU to the southwest. Tesla hasn't published a street-level list, so check the pickup pin in the app before you count on a specific address.
| City | Geofence (sq mi) |
|---|---|
| Austin, TX | 272 |
| Houston, TX | 254 |
| Fort Worth, TX (new) | 143 |
| Dallas, TX | 81 |
| Miami, FL | 31 |
| Orlando, FL | 26 |
| Tampa, FL | 24 |
Geofence estimates as of Nov 2, 2026, via Robotaxi trackers on X. Tesla does not publish official square-mile figures.
Texas holds four of the seven cities, and the four largest zones are all in Texas. Fort Worth launched at almost twice the size of Dallas's map, even though Dallas has run since January. That shows how much more confident Tesla has become about opening big zones on day one.
Tesla hasn't said how many vehicles are serving Fort Worth or which models. Its Robotaxi markets outside Austin have so far run on Model Y. Tesla's Texas Robotaxi fleet is now estimated at 1,204 vehicles, 631 Model Ys and 573 Cybercabs, so Fort Worth is likely to start with Model Ys while the steering-wheel-free Cybercab rolls out in Dallas this month.
Can you ride from Fort Worth to Dallas? Not yet. The two zones are separate and don't connect across Arlington or Grand Prairie, and Tesla doesn't link geofences between cities. A single DFW-wide map is the obvious next step, and with Fort Worth's eastern edge already near Haltom City, the gap is shrinking.
Dallas–Fort Worth is the fourth-largest metro area in the country, and Tesla now covers both of its big cities. Tesla trackers estimate that the unsupervised geofences together now cover roughly 1% of the entire U.S. population. That is a small share, but a few years ago it was zero, and the number is now growing every few weeks.
Fort Worth also wasn't on the list of cities Tesla had publicly named as next. Tesla is launching in markets it never announced in advance. Expect more Sunday-night announcements like this one.
The bottom line: Fort Worth is live. It is a 143-square-mile launch zone covering downtown, the west side out past White Settlement and north toward Saginaw, and it opened at 6 AM today. If you're in Cowtown, download the Robotaxi app and look for a free first ride. Between Fort Worth today and the Cybercab arriving in Dallas this month, North Texas is about to become the busiest robotaxi region in America.
Related: Cybercab is coming to Dallas: launch date and how to ride · Houston's Robotaxi expansion · Tesla's Robotaxi safety report
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