Robotaxi is live in four metros and covers 1,190 square miles

Updated 2026-06-12.

Tesla's unsupervised Robotaxi service operates in four metros: Austin, the Bay Area, Dallas, and Houston, with combined coverage of roughly 1,190 square miles.

What happened

The Austin service area expanded twice this spring. In late March 2026, Tesla extended the unsupervised service area into parts of downtown Austin, the first time the autonomous fleet was permitted north of the Colorado River. By early May, the service began operating unsupervised during evening hours for the first time, moving beyond the daylight-only restriction. Downtown grids and night driving are the hard cases, and the fleet took both on within six weeks.

In April 2026, Tesla launched unsupervised Robotaxi in Dallas and Houston, taking the service from one city to four. By late April, Electrek reported the cumulative unsupervised fleet had reached about 25 vehicles across the Texas cities, with coverage spanning Austin at 244 square miles, the Bay Area at 890, Dallas at 31, and Houston at 25.

Five more cities are in the pipeline. Phoenix, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Las Vegas have preparations underway, with Robotaxi-ready Model Ys already staged in Phoenix and outside Las Vegas. Tesla is sequencing launches behind proven service rather than racing the calendar. Regulators are watching the program closely, as they should for any driverless service carrying the public, and like every operator in the industry, Tesla keeps remote assistance in the loop for edge cases.

The pace picked up again after our reporting window: on June 3, Tesla switched on unsupervised service across the entire Austin metro. We covered that milestone, and the program's first full year, in our one-year Robotaxi report.

Our take

City-by-city, daylight-then-dark, supervised-then-not is the methodical way to scale a driverless service, and the spring proved the method. Downtown Austin is denser traffic, lower light, and more pedestrians than the original geofence, and the expansion into evening hours followed within weeks instead of quarters. Each successful expansion makes the next city's approval easier.

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