Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin now covers the entire Austin Metro area in Texas, the electric-vehicle maker said Wednesday, as it expands its autonomous ride-hailing operation.
“Unsupervised Robotaxi now in the entire Austin Metro area,” Tesla’s official Robotaxi account said in a post on X. Tesla’s Robotaxi page also lists autonomous rides in Austin, Dallas and Houston, Texas.
The Austin service has operated for nearly a year and still faces wait times of more than 30 minutes.
Austin officials said Tesla had roughly 50 vehicles operating in the city, while Alphabet’s Waymo ran more than 250 vehicles in the same area. Business Insider reported that Tesla had 42 robotaxis registered in Texas, with about 21 operating unsupervised.
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said last month that he expected fully self-driving cars without human safety monitors to become more widespread in the United States later this year. The company said in April that it was also rolling out robotaxis in Dallas and Houston.
The expansion is part of Tesla’s broader shift toward artificial intelligence and robotics, following Musk’s decision to make autonomous ride-hailing and Full Self-Driving software central to the company’s growth strategy.
