Tesla Robotaxi Now Runs 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. in Six U.S. Cities — Canada Still Waiting

Tesla's Robotaxi service is now officially available from 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m., seven days a week, in the six U.S. metropolitan areas where unsupervised robotaxis operate. The company announced the hours in a Wednesday update on X, alongside news that its unsupervised fleet is "a lot bigger" and that upgraded vehicle-distribution and routing intelligence should mean shorter waits for riders.

The hours themselves quietly took effect earlier in August — Tesla's Wednesday post simply made them official. The service covers Austin, Dallas and Houston in Texas, plus Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida. Tesla did not publish a fleet count, but unofficial community trackers cited by Drive Tesla estimate roughly 85 active vehicles across the six metros.

What the new schedule means for riders

The expanded window matters because early-morning airport runs and late-evening trips were previously outside the service's reach. Tesla also says the network now positions vehicles based on demand more efficiently — the company's own framing is that riders "wait less." The fleet has accumulated more than 380,000 miles (611,550 km) of unsupervised driving, with weekly autonomous mileage growing at a double-digit rate, and it is already testing early builds of the next-generation FSD v15 software.

Why the Bay Area is different

Tesla's California operations were conspicuously absent from the announcement. In the Bay Area, the service still runs with a safety driver behind the wheel — Tesla holds only a California DMV permit for autonomous testing with a driver, not a driverless deployment permit. That makes it technically a ride-hailing service, though with longer hours: 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.

How fast has Robotaxi scaled?

The trajectory is fast by any measure. Tesla launched Robotaxi in Austin in June 2025 with a small Model Y fleet and a safety monitor in the front passenger seat. Fully unsupervised rides opened to passengers in January 2026, Dallas and Houston joined in April, Miami in July, and Orlando and Tampa followed shortly after. Six driverless metros in roughly 14 months — with the purpose-built Cybercab event teased for September 3 in Austin.

What about Canada?

None of this is available north of the border. Canada has no driverless robotaxi service in operation, and the federal-provincial permitting path that Tesla navigated in Texas and Florida does not yet have a Canadian equivalent in motion. The closest signal so far has been Tesla job postings in Ottawa, which suggest the company is at least studying Canadian expansion. For now, Canadian watchers get a front-row seat — the U.S. rollout is the live preview of what a Canadian regulatory framework would have to accommodate.

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