Key facts
- Tesla announced the San Antonio start in a post on X and gave no further service details.
- Tesla did not say whether the fleet will include the two-seater Cybercab or modified Model Y vehicles.
- Tesla did not say whether San Antonio vehicles will carry human safety monitors on board.
- Waymo, an Alphabet subsidiary, also operates in San Antonio and restarted service there after a five-month pause.
- Texas registration data and the Robotaxi Tracker site put Tesla's Fort Worth fleet at 24 vehicles and Miami at five.
- Tesla's robotaxi network drove fewer miles with paying customers in the second quarter than in the first, per TechCrunch.
Tesla said in a post on X that it will make its robotaxis available in San Antonio starting at 5 a.m. local time on Monday, November 9, 2026, extending a service that already runs in parts of Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston.
The company did not provide details on hours of operation, whether the fleet will offer its gold, two-seater Cybercab as well as modified Model Y vehicles, or whether the vehicles will carry human safety monitors on board. The report said that if Tesla follows its playbook from previous launches, it will start with a limited number of vehicles and a confined service area and expand slowly.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised for a decade that the company would deliver autonomous vehicles, and Tesla launched a robotaxi service in Austin in June 2025. That launch was limited and supported by human safety operators on board. In January, Tesla removed safety monitors from its robotaxis in Austin, starting a driverless service, and has since expanded within that city and to cities in Florida and Texas.
Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, also runs robotaxis in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, using driverless Jaguar I-Pace and Zeekr RT vehicles branded Ojai. Waymo restarted service in San Antonio after a five-month pause following incidents in which its vehicles got stuck after entering flooded roadways.
Tesla has more than 400 autonomous vehicles registered in its Austin fleet, while fleets in other cities have numbered between a handful and a few dozen, according to Texas vehicle registration data and the Robotaxi Tracker website. The tracker put Tesla's Fort Worth fleet at 24 vehicles and its Miami fleet at five.
Tesla also runs a ride-hailing service under a transportation charter permit in the San Francisco Bay Area, where a human sits behind the wheel. Tesla does not have the required permits to operate a driverless ride-hailing service in California.
TechCrunch reported in July that data released by Tesla showed its robotaxi network drove fewer miles with paying customers in the second quarter than in the first.