Overview
- Tesla activated driverless Robotaxi rides in San Antonio on Monday and posted a roughly 274–275 square-mile launch geofence that includes San Antonio International Airport but does not offer airport pickups or drop-offs.
- The service is unsupervised, using modified Model Y vehicles without in-vehicle safety drivers, while Tesla’s two-seater Cybercabs remain largely confined to Austin.
- Tesla did not disclose how many cars will operate in San Antonio and Robotaxi Tracker had logged no Tesla Robotaxis in the city as of the morning of the launch, leaving wait times and actual vehicle availability unclear.
- Independent checks from prior Tesla launches show the app often accepts pickups and drop-offs on only about 59% to 78% of the advertised polygons because of route restrictions, blocked addresses and mapping limits, so headline square miles can overstate usable coverage.
- The San Antonio move brings Tesla’s unsupervised footprint to eight U.S. cities and highlights that raw geofence size is a limited measure of scale compared with cars-per-area, rides completed and route limitations, metrics where Waymo currently fields far more driverless vehicles.