Overview
- The service, which Tesla announced Saturday, now has two unsupervised Model Ys in both cities after starting with one car per market.
- Coverage is limited to small geofenced areas of roughly 31 square miles in Dallas and 25 in Houston, and availability has been intermittent.
- Early riders have reported issues like missed highway exits, abrupt braking, curb strikes, and wrong drop-offs, and Tesla says remote operators sometimes take control.
- Regulatory filings from the Austin pilot list 14 crashes through February and Tesla redacted incident narratives, preventing outside reviewers from assessing cause.
- The Texas expansion arrives days before Wednesday’s earnings call as analysts debate Tesla’s path to scale, with rival Waymo fielding larger fleets and broader zones using lidar, radar, and cameras.