Tesla Robotaxi rides began in San Antonio, Texas at 5 AM on November 9, 2026, its eighth unsupervised city and largest launch map yet, as Austin's service area expanded to about 443 square miles. Here are both maps, what's covered and how to ride.
Image: @robotaxi on X
Tesla's Robotaxi network grew twice in one day. Just after midnight on Monday, the company's official Robotaxi account posted a single line: "Robotaxi available in San Antonio starting tomorrow, 5am." Hours later came a second post, "Bigger Austin service area now live," with a map that redraws Tesla's home market far beyond its old borders.
San Antonio becomes Tesla's eighth unsupervised Robotaxi city, and its fifth in Texas, one week after Fort Worth went live. It also opens with the biggest launch map Tesla has ever drawn.
The San Antonio zone is one large shape that covers most of the city's north side. Its northern edge runs along Loop 1604, and it reaches south to downtown, which sits near the bottom of the map. Inside it are the full Loop 410 ring and long stretches of I-10, I-35 and US-281, the corridors most San Antonians drive every day.
Electrek measured the polygon at about 274 square miles. Other trackers put it at about 275. Either way, it is bigger than Tesla's original Austin map, and more than four times the size of Waymo's San Antonio service area, which Robotaxi Tracker puts at about 59 square miles.
Two things to know before you ride
The airport isn't served. San Antonio International Airport sits inside the zone on the map, but Tesla isn't doing pickups or drop-offs there yet. The map is the outer limit, not a promise. An independent check in Austin found Tesla's app accepted pickups and drop-offs in only about 59% of the advertised zone. Electrek estimates San Antonio's real usable area at roughly 160 to 210 square miles. Check the pickup pin in the app before you count on a specific address.
Austin's new map pushes out in three directions:
Drive Tesla Canada puts the new zone at about 443 square miles, up from roughly 272, an increase of more than 60%. That makes Austin Tesla's largest service area by a wide margin. Electrek reports Tesla has 453 unsupervised vehicles in service there, and Austin remains the only city where riders can be matched with a steering-wheel-free Cybercab.
| City | Geofence (sq mi, approx.) |
|---|---|
| Austin, TX (expanded) | 443 |
| San Antonio, TX (new) | 274 |
| Houston, TX | 254 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 143 |
| Dallas, TX | 81 |
| Miami, FL | 31 |
| Orlando, FL | 26 |
| Tampa, FL | 24 |
Advertised geofence estimates as of early November 2026, via Electrek, Drive Tesla Canada and Robotaxi trackers on X. Tesla does not publish official square-mile figures.
Texas now holds the five largest zones. Tesla has said nothing about how many cars will serve San Antonio. As of Monday morning, Robotaxi Tracker hadn't yet logged any Tesla Robotaxis there, so expect a small fleet at first.
Tesla went from four Texas cities to five in a week and grew its home market by more than 60% on the same day. Tesla now advertises nearly 1,200 square miles of service area across Texas alone. The honest caveat is the gap between the map and the car: Tesla runs about 666 driverless vehicles nationwide, according to Robotaxi Tracker, against more than 4,000 for Waymo. Big maps make headlines. What riders will judge is how long they wait for a car and whether it takes them where they asked to go.
The bottom line: San Antonio is live with a roughly 274-square-mile zone from Loop 1604 to downtown, the biggest launch map Tesla has drawn. Austin just grew to about 443 square miles, reaching Pflugerville, Manor and well past the airport. Download the Robotaxi app and check your address, but treat the maps as the outer edge, not the guaranteed service area. We'll update this story with fleet numbers and fares as they come in.
Related: Fort Worth Robotaxi launch · Houston Robotaxi expansion · Tesla's Robotaxi safety report
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