As of June 23, 2026, Tesla's own support materials say Robotaxi service is available in limited areas of Austin, Dallas, and Houston, with service hours from 6 AM to 2 AM CT.
Tesla's current customer-facing robotaxi service is built around Model Y vehicles, while the company says Cybercab is the long-term dedicated vehicle for the network. In Tesla's Q1 2026 shareholder update, the company said Dallas and Houston unsupervised rides launched in April, Austin, Dallas, and Houston are now ramping unsupervised service, the San Francisco Bay Area remains in safety-driver status, and Phoenix, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Las Vegas are in preparation mode.
That means Tesla currently has 3 live Texas service metros, 1 California metro in safety-driver mode, and 5 additional U.S. metros named as near-term expansion targets. Put another way: 3 cities are live for the current Texas service, and 9 named U.S. metro areas are on Tesla's near-term Robotaxi map if you include active, supervised, and planned/prep locations.
The Fleet-Size Question
Tesla has not publicly given a clean, current city-by-city count for active Robotaxi vehicles in service. The best outside estimate in the public record comes from Business Insider, which reported on May 29, 2026 that newly available Texas DMV records showed Tesla with 42 autonomous vehicles on Texas roads, versus Waymo's 577.
That number is useful, but it should be treated as an outside regulatory snapshot, not an official Tesla disclosure and not a direct real-time count of currently available ridehail vehicles. A separate caution point comes from The Verge, which reported on April 20 that Dallas and Houston availability looked rocky right after launch and that an Austin tracker showed 46 available vehicles at that time. That tracker figure was only moment-in-time context in April, not a current June fleet count.
What Is Happening Right Now
The biggest change is that Tesla is no longer talking about Robotaxi only as a future product. It now has an operating service footprint that Tesla's own support page places in three Texas cities: Austin, Dallas, and Houston.
The live support-page details matter because they answer practical questions readers actually ask:
- Where can people ride now? Limited areas of Austin, Dallas, and Houston.
- When is it running? 6 AM to 2 AM CT.
- What vehicles are being used now? Model Y.
Tesla's public Robotaxi page also frames the current service as starting with Model Y, while pointing to Cybercab as the future dedicated vehicle. That is important because it shows Tesla is using today's production hardware to get the network moving now, instead of waiting for the purpose-built vehicle to carry the whole rollout.
Where The Future Is Going
Tesla's Q1 2026 shareholder deck is the clearest official roadmap in one document.
The deck says:
- Dallas and Houston unsupervised Robotaxi rides launched in April 2026.
- Austin, Dallas, and Houston are each listed as "Ramping Unsupervised."
- San Francisco Bay Area is listed as "Safety Driver."
- Phoenix, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Las Vegas are listed as "Preparations Underway."
- Paid Robotaxi miles nearly doubled sequentially in Q1.
- Tesla received approval for FSD Supervised in the Netherlands in April.
- Tesla says it continues to make progress on approval in China.
This paints a much more concrete picture than the old "someday" Robotaxi story. Texas is the real operating beachhead. The Bay Area remains a supervised market, not the same status as the Texas unsupervised ramp. Phoenix plus the big Florida cluster and Las Vegas are the named next-wave expansion targets.
How Many Cities Are Live Or Planned?
There are two honest ways to count this, and it is worth being explicit.
Count 1: rider-available live service now
By Tesla support-page language, the current rider-facing service footprint is Austin, Dallas, and Houston. That is 3 live service metros.
Count 2: Tesla's full near-term named U.S. rollout map
By Tesla's Q1 2026 update, the near-term named U.S. metro list is Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and Las Vegas. That is 9 named U.S. metros in Tesla's active Robotaxi pipeline right now.
Why Model Y Now, And Why Cybercab Later?
Tesla is running Robotaxi now with Model Y vehicles because they already exist in scale, they are road-proven, and they let Tesla learn from live commercial operations immediately. But Tesla's own investor materials make clear that this is not the long-term end state.
In the Q1 2026 update, Tesla says that once Cybercab is in production, it expects Cybercab to begin replacing the existing Model Y fleet and to become the highest-volume vehicle in the network over time.
In plain English, Model Y is the bridge. Cybercab is the scaling bet.
The Big Picture
Tesla's Robotaxi business looks more real on June 23, 2026 than it did a few months ago, mainly because the company now has a defined three-city Texas footprint and a much clearer official expansion map.
But the scale story is still early. The bullish version is straightforward: three Texas metros are live, paid miles are climbing, five more U.S. metros are in prep, and Tesla is trying to move from a general-purpose SUV fleet to a purpose-built Cybercab fleet.
The skeptical version is also straightforward: Tesla still has not provided a clean current fleet count, outside reporting suggests the Texas footprint remains small compared with Waymo, and early Dallas/Houston availability looked uneven.
Bottom Line
Tesla has crossed the line from concept to real service, but it has not yet crossed the line from early rollout to obvious large-scale dominance. June 2026 is the stage where the roadmap is getting clearer, while the real question is whether Tesla can turn a small, tightly bounded Texas operation into a durable multi-city autonomous network.