🚨 Tesla Robotaxi Dallas geofence jumps about 50 percent
• Official Tesla Robotaxi account posted the new Dallas map on 29 Aug: “Now serving more of Dallas”
• Coverage estimated at 78 sq km before, about 120 sq km after
• More of downtown plus extra ground to the west
• Dallas has been running unsupervised public rides since January
• Same network now covers six US cities: Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, Tampa
This is not a new driving stack. It is a bigger box the same cars are allowed to work in.
A geofence that small still kills utilization. Half the trip requests die at the edge. Adding downtown and the west side is how a thin fleet starts to look like a service instead of a demo zone.
I read this as the quiet week before Cybercab. Hours got longer. Dispatch got smarter. Now the map got bigger.
September 3 is the vehicle. This is the city catching up.