Tesla announced it is rolling out its Robotaxi service in San Antonio starting at 5 a.m. on Monday, marking the automaker's eighth city for unsupervised operations. The company posted an advertised launch boundary stretching from Loop 1604 south to past downtown, which Robotaxi Tracker calculated at 274 square miles. That boundary covers around 1.0 million residents and 721,000 jobs, making it the largest day-one service map Tesla has ever published. [1][2]
The operational reality may prove smaller than the advertised map suggests. While San Antonio International Airport falls within the drawn boundary, it is not currently served. Tesla did not disclose initial fleet sizes, operating hours, or vehicle types, and Robotaxi Tracker had not logged a single active Tesla vehicle in the city as of Monday morning. [1][2]
The arrival intensifies Tesla's competition with Alphabet subsidiary Waymo, which operates a 59-square-mile territory in San Antonio that already includes airport runs. Waymo leads in overall deployment with over 4,000 driverless vehicles nationally compared to 666 for Tesla, according to Robotaxi Tracker, as Tesla continues to expand across Texas and Florida. [1][2]
