{"id":259587,"date":"2026-04-21T14:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259587\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:44:06","slug":"dallas-leads-on-list-of-best-big-cities-for-new-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259587\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas leads on list of best big cities for new businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla\u2019s Robotaxi service has taken to the streets of Dallas. In a brief statement<\/a> Saturday, April 18 on its X social media account, Tesla Robotaxi says the autonomous rideshare service launched in Texas\u2019 two biggest metro areas – Dallas and Houston.<\/p>\n

\u201cTry Tesla Robotaxi in Dallas & Houston!\u201d Tesla CEO Elon Musk says in a reposting<\/a> on X of the Robotaxi announcement.<\/p>\n

One of Robotaxi\u2019s competitors, Alphabet-owned Waymo<\/a>, beat the Tesla service to the Dallas, Houston, and Austin markets. Another competitor, Amazon-owned Zoox, has Dallas<\/a> flagged for its autonomous rideshare service.<\/p>\n

Robotaxi previously kicked off<\/a> in Austin, where Tesla is based and manufactures electric vehicles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Nearly 50 Robotaxis operate in Austin, where the service\u2019s inaugural rides happened last year, and more than 500 in the San Francisco area. <\/p>\n

Of the three rides logged in a 31-square-mile area in Dallas as of Monday morning, the average fare was $7.96 and the average trip was 3.5 miles, according to an online tracker<\/a> of autonomous rideshare services. The tracker showed only one Robotaxi was on the roads in Dallas.<\/p>\n

As of Monday morning, a 25-square-mile area in Houston had two Robotaxis<\/a> on the road, according to the online tracker. The average fare for five recorded rides was $11.34 and the average trip was six miles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want Robotaxi pricing to be simple and easy for you to understand,\u201d says the Robotaxi website. \u201cInitially, as part of our introductory program, we will charge a simple, affordable rate plus applicable taxes and fees for all rides within the available service area.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tracker shows the Robotaxi in Dallas did not have a human aboard to monitor each trip, and only one of Houston\u2019s two Robotaxis did not have a human monitor in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

For now, all passengers ride in Tesla Model Y cars. Robotaxi operates from 6 am-2 am daily. <\/p>\n

To use the service, you first must download the Robotaxi app<\/a>, which works only on iPhones.<\/p>\n

Robotaxi lets you stream music and adjust climate settings and seat positioning from the Robotaxi app or the vehicle\u2019s touchscreen. Climate and media settings are stored in your Robotaxi profile and automatically transfer from one vehicle to another. If you own a Tesla, certain profile settings and media preferences are available in your own car as well as in a Robotaxi.<\/p>\n

In January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Musk said a \u201cwidespread\u201d network of driverless rideshare vehicles<\/a> would be operating in the U.S. by the end of this year, CNBC reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s Robotaxi service has taken to the streets of Dallas. In a brief statement Saturday, April 18 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,6874,5406,39929,426,542,511],"class_list":{"0":"post-259587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-entrepreneurs","12":"tag-innovation","13":"tag-new-businesses","14":"tag-rankings","15":"tag-reports","16":"tag-wallethub"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}