Tesla is extending its robotaxi service to San Antonio, saying in a post on X that robotaxis would be available there from 5 a.m. local time on Monday. The company gave no further detail on the service: not its hours, not whether riders will get the two-seat Cybercab alongside modified Model Y vehicles, and not whether human safety monitors will be on board. Tesla’s pattern in previous launches has been to start with a small fleet inside a confined service area and expand from there.
The service began in Austin in June 2025 with safety operators on board. Tesla removed the monitors from its Austin robotaxis in January and has since expanded within Austin and into Miami and Orlando in Florida and Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston in Texas. San Antonio is the fifth Texas city. Waymo, Alphabet’s driverless unit, also operates in San Antonio and recently restarted service there after a five-month pause that followed incidents in which its vehicles became stuck after entering flooded roadways.
Scale remains the open question. Tesla has more than 400 autonomous vehicles registered in its Austin fleet, but its fleets elsewhere have numbered between a handful and a few dozen, according to Texas registration data and the Robotaxi Tracker website: 24 vehicles in Fort Worth and five in Miami. Data Tesla released over the summer also showed its robotaxi network drove fewer miles with paying customers in the second quarter than in the first.
Tesla separately runs a ride-hailing service in the San Francisco Bay Area under a transportation charter permit, with a human behind the wheel; it does not hold the permits needed for a driverless service in California.