Tesla launched unsupervised Robotaxi service in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 2 at 6 a.m. CT, making it the seventh U.S. city where riders can hail a fully driverless Tesla with no human safety monitor aboard3,4.
The Fort Worth geofence covers approximately 143 square miles, centered on Downtown Fort Worth and stretching west to White Settlement, south to Benbrook, and north to Saginaw along I-35W past Loop 820. That makes it Tesla's third-largest unsupervised Robotaxi market, behind Austin at 272 square miles and Houston at 254 square miles, and well ahead of Dallas at 81 square miles.
Three-month gap ends
Fort Worth is the first new unsupervised Robotaxi city in approximately three months, according to @SawyerMerritt on X. The previous additions were Orlando and Tampa, which came online in late July. Fort Worth now joins Austin, Dallas, and Houston in Texas, plus Miami, Orlando, and Tampa in Florida.
The San Francisco Bay Area operates a separate, supervised Robotaxi program with a safety driver in every vehicle due to California law.
Texas consolidation
Texas now hosts four of the seven active unsupervised Robotaxi markets. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has two active Robotaxi zones operating in parallel.
The Fort Worth launch follows a week of operational expansion elsewhere in Texas. Tesla extended Robotaxi operating hours to a 6 a.m.–2 a.m. window last week, giving riders 20 hours of daily availability2. The company also expanded its Houston service area the prior Monday.
Tesla announced the Fort Worth launch on the evening of November 1 via its official Robotaxi account on X, stating that service would begin the following morning at 6 a.m.. The service opened on schedule.
ANALYSIS Fort Worth's 143-square-mile geofence is notably larger than Dallas's 81-square-mile zone, despite Dallas launching earlier — a pattern consistent with Tesla sizing each market's coverage area independently rather than expanding outward from a single metro anchor.
Tesla most recently named Las Vegas, Phoenix, Jacksonville, and San Antonio as its next targets for Robotaxi expansion1. Fort Worth, however, was not on that published list.
The competitive backdrop continues to shift: Waymo now serves more than 500,000 paid rides per week and has targeted 1 million weekly rides by the end of 2026[2].