{"id":260771,"date":"2026-04-22T06:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260771\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:32:14","slug":"tesla-launches-robotaxis-in-dallas-and-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260771\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla launches robotaxis in Dallas and Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEXAS \u2014 More Texans will now be able to hail a ride in a Tesla robotaxi.<\/p>\n

The company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk and headquartered in Austin, announced in a post<\/a> on X that the vehicles are \u201crolling out\u201d in Dallas and Houston.<\/p>\n

Maps of the company’s footprint in both cities were included in the post, showing a range including Jersey Village northwest of Houston and north of Dallas near Highland Park.<\/p>\n

The lastest Tesla launch comes after Waymo, another self-driving vehicle company, expanded into Dallas, Houston and San Antonio in February.<\/p>\n

Tesla debuted its robotaxis in Austin last summer. The capital city seems to be one of the nation’s hubs for self-driving automation with other companies like Zoox and Austin-based Avride launching their own fleets in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 More Texans will now be able to hail a ride in a Tesla robotaxi. The company,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,910,1226,102,223,82,27,840],"class_list":{"0":"post-260771","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-business","12":"tag-christine-sanchez","13":"tag-dallas","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260771","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=260771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}