Tesla expanded its Austin Robotaxi geofence by roughly 63%, adding about 171 square miles to bring the total service area to approximately 443 square miles1,2. The company also moved the service's start time to 5 a.m., and Cybercabs have been spotted driving overnight.
Tesla's official Robotaxi account posted on X on November 9, 2026, that a bigger Austin service area was now live, shortly after the company opened San Antonio as a new Robotaxi city. Austin's coverage grew from 272 square miles, making it Tesla's largest unsupervised Robotaxi market. The Austin zone is now reported to be around three times the size of Waymo's Austin geofence.
Where the boundary moved
The expanded geofence pushes outward in nearly every direction except north, where it stops short of Round Rock and Cedar Park. To the east, coverage now reaches past Pflugerville toward Manor; to the southeast, it extends well past Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and beyond the TX-130 toll road. In the southwest, the zone reaches the TX-45 toll road near Buda, and to the west it stretches toward Lakeway.
The Austin expansion came the same day Tesla went live in San Antonio with approximately 274–275 square miles of coverage, making it the company's second-largest Robotaxi market.
Fleet footprint across eight cities
Tesla's Robotaxi service is now active across eight cities. Beyond Austin and San Antonio, coverage spans Houston at 254 square miles, Fort Worth at 143, Dallas at 81, Miami at 31, Orlando at 26, and Tampa at 24. Tesla had already expanded the Austin service area and extended operating hours in October 2026.
The operating-hours change is also notable. With a reported 5 a.m. start and a 2 a.m. end, the service now runs 21 hours a day, according to an app screenshot shared by former Tesla intern Ethan McKanna. Tesla has not confirmed round-the-clock service.
ANALYSIS The pace of geographic expansion, with San Antonio launching and Austin's zone growing 63% on the same day, contrasts with the three-month gap between earlier city launches that preceded Fort Worth and San Antonio.
Tesla had registered 1,282 vehicles on the Texas DMV automated vehicle registry as of November 9, putting it four vehicles behind Waymo's 1,285[2]. Waymo, meanwhile, faces a separate NHTSA recall query over school-bus-passing incidents[3].