Tesla Robotaxi starts rides in Fort Worth, its fourth Texas city
Rides open at 6 a.m. CT Monday across a zone around downtown. Tesla hasn't said how many cars it has there or whether anyone rides along.
Tesla's Robotaxi ride-hailing service opens to riders in Fort Worth, Texas, at 6 a.m. CT (7 a.m. ET) on Monday (Nov. 2), making it the company's fourth Texas city after Austin, Dallas and Houston.
Tesla announced the launch just after midnight ET in a post from its official Robotaxi account on X: "Robotaxi available in Fort Worth starting tomorrow, 6am." The post came with a map labeled "Launch geofence," the boundary of the area where the cars will pick up and drop off riders.
That map shows one large zone centered on downtown Fort Worth. It runs north toward Saginaw, west past White Settlement and southwest to Benbrook, with its eastern edge near Haltom City and Forest Hill.
The post leaves a lot out. Tesla hasn't said how many cars will serve Fort Worth, what rides cost there, whether a safety monitor will sit in the car, or whether the zone will eventually link up with Dallas, about 30 miles east.
Tesla doesn't publish geofence sizes, but Tesla investor Sawyer Merritt, who tracks the service closely, put the Fort Worth zone at 143 square miles. By his count, that makes it the third-largest Robotaxi area after Austin (272 square miles) and Houston (254), and well ahead of Dallas (81).
Merritt also described the service as unsupervised in seven cities as of Monday: the four in Texas plus Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida. He called Fort Worth Tesla's first new city in about three months. Those are his figures, not Tesla's.
Riders book through the Tesla Robotaxi app. Tesla said on Oct. 30 that operating hours are now 6 a.m. to 2 a.m., and it added a rear-view camera feed during rides and trip sharing with a friend.
The bigger question for Dallas-Fort Worth is which car shows up. Tesla began giving rides in Cybercab, its two-seat robotaxi, in Austin on Sept. 3, according to its Q3 2026 update. Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja said on Oct. 21 that Austin is the only Cybercab city so far.
On Tesla's Oct. 21 earnings call, Tesla AI software VP Ashok Elluswamy said, "There's no fundamental reason that we are limited to Austin. In fact, next month, we'll be launching in Dallas." He added that the same software would then scale "to lots of other cities along with the Model Y Robotaxis."
Tesla's own numbers show the driverless side growing fast. The company said its Robotaxi service reached "nearly two million cumulative unsupervised miles" by the end of September, and that unsupervised miles grew eightfold from the previous quarter.
Fort Worth also lands days after Tesla switched on a much larger Houston zone on Oct. 26, according to TeslaNorth. Dallas, by contrast, started in April with a small zone that has grown since.
A big map isn't the same as short wait times, though. The number that matters for Fort Worth riders is how many cars Tesla puts inside that boundary, and the company hasn't shared it. The next milestone to watch is Cybercab's promised Dallas debut, which Tesla tied to November.
