SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Tesla began offering rides in its driverless Robotaxi service across San Antonio early Monday, Nov. 9, with the first trips available at 5 a.m. Central time.
The launch makes San Antonio the eighth city where the automaker runs unsupervised autonomous rides, and it came one week after Tesla opened service in Fort Worth on Nov. 2.
The San Antonio zone is among the biggest the company has opened at launch, at roughly 272 to 274 square miles by different estimates, about the same as the Austin area where rides began in June 2025.
The map takes in all of downtown and nearly everything inside Loop 410. It reaches north to Loop 1604 between Interstate 10 and U.S. 281, runs west past State Highway 151, crosses east of Interstate 35 and dips south below I-410 toward I-37.
San Antonio International Airport sits inside the zone, though airport pickups and drop-offs by a driverless car may be limited.
Rides start with Model Y vehicles. Tesla had listed San Antonio last month, along with Las Vegas, Phoenix and Jacksonville, as one of its next markets.
With San Antonio on board, the company says its driverless zones now reach about 4.2 million people combined across its markets. Advertised maps can overstate reach: one outside review of the Texas zones put actual rider coverage at 22 to 41 percent below what Tesla shows, even if most people still live within range.
Tesla has also been adding features in existing cities. It recently stretched Robotaxi hours in Austin and added a Calm Mode that hides busy visuals on the touchscreen, and it has more than 300 of its purpose-built Cybercabs running in Austin, with Cybercab rides due in Dallas this month.
For San Antonio riders, the service joins a mix of ride-hailing and transit options in a city where the zone stretches from the urban core to the northern suburbs along Loop 1604.
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