Tesla switched on its robotaxi service in San Antonio on Monday, November 9, 2026, at 5:00 a.m. local time, with an operating area of roughly 275 square miles (712 square kilometers), the largest the company has opened in a single launch, according to Not a Tesla App.
San Antonio is the fifth Texas city in the network, after Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston, according to Not a Tesla App. The company opened Austin in June 2025 with safety operators on board and removed those personnel in January; since then it has added Miami and Orlando, in Florida, according to TechCrunch. San Antonio sits about 250 kilometers from the border with Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on the freight corridor linking central Mexico with Texas. For the Mexican community in the United States the detail matters because of proximity: the Laredo-San Antonio corridor is one of the busiest trade routes between the two countries, and Texas rules are the closest regulatory precedent to Mexico.
Coverage spans downtown San Antonio, nearly the entire area inside Loop 410, and extends north to Loop 1604, between I-10 and US-281. Tesla did not disclose fleet size, hours, fares or the presence of safety monitors on board, TechCrunch reported. As a scale reference, the company has more than 400 autonomous vehicles registered in Austin, 24 in Fort Worth and five in Miami. Waymo, an Alphabet subsidiary, also operates in San Antonio with Jaguar I-Pace and Zeekr RT vehicles, and resumed service after a five-month pause due to flooding incidents. In the second quarter, Tesla's network logged fewer miles with paying passengers than in the first.
In Austin, Tesla extended service hours to 21 hours a day, from 5:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., according to IJR News. The next announced step is the start of Cybercab service in Dallas in late November, according to Not a Tesla App. San Antonio, the second most populous city in Texas, thus joins the map of daily transportation for the Mexican community in the state.
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