Tesla Robotaxi Goes Live in Dallas and Houston, Bringing Unsupervised Rides to Three Texas Cities

This is the moment Tesla fans have been waiting for. Tesla just officially expanded its unsupervised Robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, making it three Texas cities where you can hail a self-driving Tesla with zero human behind the wheel.

Austin was the proving ground. Now Dallas and Houston are live. And if Tesla’s Q4 earnings slide deck is any indication, this is only the beginning.

Take a look:

Tesla has just officially launched Unsupervised Robotaxi rides in Dallas & Houston!

The expansion has officially begun! Let’s gooooo pic.twitter.com/6B9GCxY4Ga

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) April 18, 2026

That tweet from Sawyer Merritt racked up over 100,000 views in under an hour. The excitement is real, and it should be. Tesla just turned two of the biggest metro areas in America into live Robotaxi markets overnight.

But here is what makes this even bigger. According to Tesla’s Q4 earnings presentation, the expansion plan does not stop at Texas. Five more cities are on the radar, including Phoenix, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Las Vegas.

Cities that now offer Unsupervised @Tesla Robotaxi rides:
• Houston
• Dallas
• Austin

Other cities we could expect soon based on Tesla’s Q4 earnings slide deck:
• Phoenix
• Miami
• Orlando
• Tampa
• Las Vegas pic.twitter.com/puRIawfdxo

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) April 18, 2026

Three cities live. Five more in the pipeline. That is eight total markets for unsupervised Tesla Robotaxi rides, and the pace is accelerating.

Teslarati put this expansion in perspective:

Tesla has been steadily building toward a Robotaxi network at scale, with over 50 Cybercab units now spotted at Giga Texas and 14 steering-wheel-free production units appearing just this week. The company’s golden era of autonomous mobility is no longer a tagline. It is a rollout plan with real cities and real timelines.

That golden era line is not hype anymore. It is a checklist. Austin proved the technology works. Dallas and Houston prove it can scale. And when Phoenix and Miami come online, we are looking at a coast-to-coast autonomous ride network built by Tesla.

Teslarati noted the service originally launched in Austin back in June 2025:

Tesla launched its unsupervised Robotaxi rides at a starting price of just $4.20 per trip, using Model Y vehicles equipped with Hardware 4 and Full Self-Driving software. The service expanded to employees first before opening up to the public through the Tesla app.

At $4.20 a ride, Tesla is not just competing with Uber and Lyft. It is rewriting the economics of personal transportation entirely. No driver to pay. No surge pricing drama. Just a car that shows up and takes you where you need to go.

The Cybercab is ramping production at Giga Texas right now, and once those purpose-built autonomous vehicles start hitting the fleet alongside the Model Y Robotaxis, the capacity is going to explode. Tesla is building the future of transportation in real time, and today Dallas and Houston joined the ride.