"Tesla's Robotaxi Just Opened in Fort Worth — Its Seventh City, and One Nobody Saw Coming"

Tesla announced a new Robotaxi city the way it announces most things now: a late Sunday-night post on X. "Robotaxi available in Fort Worth starting tomorrow, 6am," the official Robotaxi account wrote — and by 6 a.m. CT on Monday, driverless Model Ys were taking fares across Cowtown, according to Not a Tesla App.

Fort Worth is Tesla's seventh unsupervised Robotaxi city — joining Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa — and its fourth in Texas, giving the company a second foothold in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro. The launch geofence spans roughly 143 square miles centered on downtown, stretching west to White Settlement and south to Benbrook, north past Saginaw, and east toward Haltom City and Forest Hill. That makes it Tesla's third-largest unsupervised market, behind only Austin's 272 square miles and Houston's 254 — the latter having ballooned nearly tenfold just last week.

The surprise is the point. Fort Worth wasn't on Tesla's published target list — Las Vegas, Phoenix, Jacksonville, and San Antonio were. A launch nobody expected suggests the expansion cadence is running ahead of the company's own announcements. It also arrives days after Tesla stretched Robotaxi operating hours to a 6 a.m.–2 a.m. window and added features like Calm Mode. The pattern is acceleration: the first new city in three months, a 143-square-mile opening-day zone, and a Texas registered fleet topping 1,204 vehicles, closing to within 55 of Waymo on the state's AV tracker.

What happens next is the interesting part. Tesla said the purpose-built Cybercab goes live in Dallas later this month — the second market after Austin — and with the Fort Worth zone sitting right next door, DFW is becoming the clearest picture of what Tesla's network looks like when it stops being a pilot. Tesla's Q3 call set the target at around-the-clock service by year end.

Watch the Dallas–Fort Worth connection. If those two zones merge, Texas's largest robotaxi markets become a single network — and the story shifts from expansion to density.

— via Not a Tesla App