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Tesla says its Robotaxi ride-hailing service opens to riders in Fort Worth, Texas on Monday, adding a fourth Texas city after Austin, Dallas and Houston.
The company announced the launch on Sunday night from its official Robotaxi account, saying rides start at 6 AM Monday.
Robotaxi is Tesla’s own ride-hailing service, booked through the Tesla Robotaxi app, which uses the company’s self-driving software to carry passengers inside a set service area, or geofence. It started in Austin and has since grown into Dallas and Houston.
Recent weeks have been busy for that Texas network. On October 26, Tesla switched on a much larger Houston geofence, stretching a small northwest patch near Cypress through downtown toward Bellaire and the edge of Pasadena. A rider later logged a 74-mile round trip across that expanded map for $133.25.
Service hours and rider tools moved forward in the same stretch. Tesla extended Robotaxi hours to a 6 AM to 2 AM window and shipped Calm Mode, trip sharing with a friend, a rear-view camera feed during rides, and accessibility upgrades such as haptic feedback to help riders find their car. New riders in Dallas and Houston have also seen a $0 first-ride offer in the app.
Accessibility work got another public push when the official Robotaxi account said in late October that it hosted Accessibility Day with members of the disabled community, with feedback going into Robotaxi products including Cybercab. Outside Texas, Elon Musk told Florida riders that beach access is coming soon for the Miami and Tampa zones.
The launch map Tesla shared for Fort Worth shows a single zone centered on downtown. It reaches north toward Saginaw, west past White Settlement and southwest toward Benbrook, while its eastern edge runs near Haltom City and Forest Hill.
Fort Worth also gives Tesla a second foothold in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, one of the largest metro regions in the US. A recent tally put the company’s Texas Robotaxi roster at 1,204 vehicles, split between 631 Model Ys and 573 Cybercabs after a late-October Model Y surge that flipped the mix from a Cybercab lead days earlier. On the same Texas ledger, Waymo still sits slightly ahead at 1,259 registered vehicles.
Hours are still climbing toward a fuller schedule. On Tesla’s Q3 call in October, AI software lead Ashok Elluswamy said Robotaxi would soon run until 2 AM and pointed to around-the-clock rides by year end.
Tesla’s Fort Worth post doesn’t say how many vehicles will serve Fort Worth at launch, whether rides there will have a safety monitor on board, or whether the Fort Worth and Dallas zones will eventually connect. It also didn’t share pricing or say whether the free first-ride offer applies to the new city.
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