{"id":260493,"date":"2026-04-22T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260493\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:27:08","slug":"elon-musks-tesla-robotaxis-rev-up-in-2-new-texas-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260493\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s Tesla robotaxis rev up in 2 new Texas cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The richest man in the world is revving full steam ahead on his driverless\u00a0robotaxis<\/a> efforts, targeting two new Texas cities nearly one year after autonomous Tesla technology\u00a0first set up shop in Austin.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk’s Tesla robotaxis<\/a> have expanded into the Texas cities of Dallas and Houston, the company announced<\/a> via a teaser video posted over the weekend. Outside of Austin, Dallas and Houston, Tesla also operates robotaxi services with human drivers in California’s Silicon Valley region.<\/p>\n

The self-driving taxis made their grand debut on June 22, 2025, to a select group of influencers in Austin, despite numerous safety concerns raised<\/a> in relation to Tesla’s Autopilot and full self-driving (FSD) software. Both of those software features had been linked to hundreds of nonfatal incidents and dozens of deaths, prompting the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to raise questions about the programming.<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite that pushback, Tesla’s operations continued in the Lone Star State, with the Austin-headquartered company expanding its services in the Texas capital back in January via rideshare services sans safety drivers.<\/p>\n

Autonomous vehicle technology<\/a> has been rampant in Austin over the years, prompting the city to launch its AV dashboard<\/a> back in July 2023. To date, that dashboard has recorded 258 incidents involving AV vehicles from Avride, Tesla, Waymo, Zoox and the now-debunked Cruise. Zooming in on Tesla, city data reports five incidents related to its robotaxi technology, all of which have been classified as “safety concerns.” Those reported incidents happened in July and December 2025, as well as one incident in March and two thus far in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tesla, Waymo and Zoox are the only deployed AV vehicles currently operating in Austin. Avride remains in the testing phase, joined by Volkswagen’s ADMT, testing out its technology in town and Hyundai’s Motional mapping and aggregating data in Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The richest man in the world is revving full steam ahead on his driverless\u00a0robotaxis efforts, targeting two new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2108,821,847,820,59494],"class_list":{"0":"post-260493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-mysaaustin","12":"tag-mysabusiness","13":"tag-mysanews","14":"tag-mysastaff","15":"tag-mysatranspo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260493","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=260493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}