Tesla Robotaxi Fort Worth service is now live. Tesla announced late on Sunday, November 1 that rides in Fort Worth, Texas would start at 6 a.m. on Monday, November 2, making it the network’s first new city in about three months and its fourth in Texas, after Austin, Dallas and Houston.
What Tesla announced
Tesla’s announcement was short: “Robotaxi available in Fort Worth starting tomorrow, 6am,” with a map of the launch service area, or geofence, as Tesla North reported. The zone is centred on downtown Fort Worth. It reaches toward Saginaw in the north, past White Settlement in the west and toward Benbrook in the southwest, with its eastern edge near Haltom City and Forest Hill.
Tesla did not give a size for the zone. EVwire estimates it at about 142 to 143 square miles (roughly 370 km2), based on the towns marked on Tesla’s map, or about 21 km east to west and 24 km north to south at its widest. If that holds, Fort Worth is Tesla’s third-largest Robotaxi area behind Austin and Houston, and well over one and a half times the size of the neighbouring Dallas zone, which EVwire puts at about 81 square miles.
By EVwire’s count, Fort Worth is the seventh U.S. market for Tesla’s unsupervised Robotaxi service, joining Austin, Dallas and Houston in Texas, plus Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida. Tesla’s San Francisco Bay Area service is separate and runs with a safety driver.
What we don’t know yet
Tesla’s post left several questions open. It did not say how many vehicles will serve Fort Worth, whether early rides will carry a safety monitor, what fares will be, or whether the Fort Worth and Dallas zones will eventually connect into one Dallas-Fort Worth area. It also did not say whether the free first ride Tesla has offered new riders in Dallas and Houston applies here. Riders book through the Tesla Robotaxi app, which shows whether a pickup point is inside the zone.
Context: a busy month for Robotaxi
The launch caps a string of Robotaxi changes. At the end of October, Tesla extended service hours to 2 a.m. and added a Calm Mode for riders. On its Q3 earnings call, Tesla said Cybercab rides would come to Dallas, and Tesla North reports that AI software lead Ashok Elluswamy pointed to around-the-clock service by the end of the year.
The fleet behind the service is growing too. Drive Tesla Canada, citing a tally of Texas vehicle registrations, reported 1,204 Tesla Robotaxi vehicles in the state (631 Model Ys and 573 Cybercabs), close to Waymo’s 1,259 registered vehicles in Texas. Registrations are not the same as cars carrying riders, so treat those numbers as a sign of scale rather than a count of active vehicles.
What it means for Canadian owners
No Robotaxi in Canada yet. Tesla has not announced a Canadian Robotaxi city, and nothing in this launch changes that. The closest driverless ride-hailing plan to most of our readers is still Waymo’s Toronto service, targeted for 2028.
The software is related to what you drive. Tesla’s release notes for FSD (Supervised) v14.3.13, the build Canadian HW4 owners have been getting in update 2026.38.5.11, say Tesla “unified the model between Actually Smart Summon, FSD, and Robotaxi.” In other words, the driving model learning from Robotaxi miles in Texas is the same family of model Canadian HW4 cars run under driver supervision. HW3 owners get FSD v14.3 Lite, a smaller model distilled from the HW4 version. Bigger Robotaxi areas mean more varied city driving for that model to learn from.
Winter is still the open question. Every unsupervised Robotaxi city so far is in Texas or Florida, where snow is rare. Nothing Tesla has shown yet tells us how unsupervised service would cope with an Ontario January: snow-covered lane lines, slush spray on cameras and short daylight. Until Tesla launches in a snowy market, Canadian owners should keep treating FSD as supervised, especially as winter weather arrives. Keep your cameras clear, and take over early when conditions get messy.
Travelling to Texas? If you’re headed to Dallas-Fort Worth this winter, you may be able to try a ride. Check the Tesla Robotaxi app’s availability in your app store region and the service area before you go, since Tesla has not said whether visitors with Canadian accounts can ride.
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Featured image: Tesla’s map of the Fort Worth Robotaxi launch geofence, November 1, 2026. Image: Tesla.