Aryan Butala(@butala_aryan):HUGE NEWS for Tesla @Robotaxi SCALE in Texas! My dad and I were picking up my car from the service center and ended up in a conversation with a sales rep in the showroom. We talked about how we loved the Robotaxi, and pulled a casual "boy I wish we could get a Robotaxi in other parts of Houston..." I wish I could record what he said after. He essentially said: So we will be launching on freeways next and that will "unlock" the rest of the locations for Houston, Austin, and Dallas. We asked if there is currently any timeline on that, and the sales rep said "its coming very soon, but we take safety here at Tesla seriously and want to make sure everythings fine before expansions" I told him that my Robotaxi goes on feeder roads to highways already and it does great, he nodded. He also gave details about how many cars are actually running in Houston simultaneously. He said 12 cars run at the same time, which aligns with my observation of a couple weeks ago in which I counted 13 individual plates on Houston roads within a 1 hour time frame. I feel this gives the sales rep some credibility. This brings the question, why are there 12 cars on the road, when the service center lot has a lot more than that parked during the day? Last night (waiting for my Uber), I asked a guy cleaning the Robotaxi windows, and it led to him saying a geofence expansion is coming soon. He says this as he is cleaning about 30 Robotaxi's windows. Two people working there saying the same things give the sales rep's statement more credibility. What this tells me is that Robotaxi doesn't want to expand geofences in cities other than Austin until highways are unlocked. Houston is so big of a city, it takes 1 hour to get from end to end using the highway! Imagine if we couldn't utilize the highway, its a waste of time. This makes complete sense to me. This news comes after they recently launched night hours for the robotaxi geofences. The next step according to the sales rep are highways which will reportedly UNLOCK the rest of the city for Austin, Dallas, and Houston!

2026.08.15 19:36

HUGE NEWS for Tesla @Robotaxi SCALE in Texas! My dad and I were picking up my car from the service center and ended up in a conversation with a sales rep in the showroom. We talked about how we loved the Robotaxi, and pulled a casual "boy I wish we could get a Robotaxi in other parts of Houston..." I wish I could record what he said after. He essentially said: So we will be launching on freeways next and that will "unlock" the rest of the locations for Houston, Austin, and Dallas. We asked if there is currently any timeline on that, and the sales rep said "its coming very soon, but we take safety here at Tesla seriously and want to make sure everythings fine before expansions" I told him that my Robotaxi goes on feeder roads to highways already and it does great, he nodded. He also gave details about how many cars are actually running in Houston simultaneously. He said 12 cars run at the same time, which aligns with my observation of a couple weeks ago in which I counted 13 individual plates on Houston roads within a 1 hour time frame. I feel this gives the sales rep some credibility. This brings the question, why are there 12 cars on the road, when the service center lot has a lot more than that parked during the day? Last night (waiting for my Uber), I asked a guy cleaning the Robotaxi windows, and it led to him saying a geofence expansion is coming soon. He says this as he is cleaning about 30 Robotaxi's windows. Two people working there saying the same things give the sales rep's statement more credibility. What this tells me is that Robotaxi doesn't want to expand geofences in cities other than Austin until highways are unlocked. Houston is so big of a city, it takes 1 hour to get from end to end using the highway! Imagine if we couldn't utilize the highway, its a waste of time. This makes complete sense to me. This news comes after they recently launched night hours for the robotaxi geofences. The next step according to the sales rep are highways which will reportedly UNLOCK the rest of the city for Austin, Dallas, and Houston!