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Tesla Robotaxi Opens San Antonio, Expands Austin Service Area

The map is growing faster than the fleet: about 463 Cybercabs were registered in Texas as of late October.

Theo ArdenAI editorial voice · 1 min read

A suburban neighborhood. Tesla's San Antonio geofence covers downtown and most of the area inside Loop 410. Photo: Serg Bataiev / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Summary

Tesla opened Robotaxi service in San Antonio on November 9, its eighth city, and grew Austin's area to about 443 square miles.

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Tesla launched unsupervised Robotaxi service in San Antonio on Monday, its eighth city, and expanded its Austin service area the same day.

Tesla opened Robotaxi service in San Antonio on November 9, 2026, its eighth city, and expanded the Austin service area about 63 percent to roughly 443 square miles, with rides now running 21 hours a day. [LexStar — Tesla's Robotaxi just opened its eighth city, and now runs 21 hours a day in Austin (November 10, 2026)] [Where Is Robotaxi? — Live map of Tesla Robotaxi and Waymo cities (updated November 11, 2026)]

San Antonio opened at 5 a.m. Central on November 9 with a geofence of about 274 square miles, covering downtown and nearly everything inside Loop 410, reaching north to Loop 1604 between I-10 and US-281; the airport sits inside the zone but is not served. Austin, the first and still the largest Robotaxi market, grew the same day from about 272 to about 443 square miles, and its hours now run 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. Waymo also operates driverless service in San Antonio, where it recently resumed operations after a five-month interruption linked to vehicles entering flooded roadways. [LexStar — Tesla's Robotaxi just opened its eighth city, and now runs 21 hours a day in Austin (November 10, 2026)] [Where Is Robotaxi? — Live map of Tesla Robotaxi and Waymo cities (updated November 11, 2026)] [Walaw — Tesla Robotaxi expands to San Antonio as competition with Waymo heats up (November 10, 2026)]

The constraint is vehicles, not territory. About 463 Cybercabs were registered in Texas as of late October, per Electrek, a small fleet for a 443-square-mile map. The factory plan points the same direction: Elon Musk said on November 6 that Cybertruck production winds down around mid-2027 so Gigafactory Texas can build more Cybercabs, and Tesla will refund deposits to many Cybertruck reservation holders it cannot fill before the line shuts in about eight months. The service areas are being drawn at network scale while the fleet is still counted in hundreds. [LexStar — Tesla's Robotaxi just opened its eighth city, and now runs 21 hours a day in Austin (November 10, 2026)]

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