Tesla posted a before-and-after map on October 26. It gave no size, fleet count or hours. Here's what the map shows and what it means for Canadian FSD owners.
Tesla has made its Robotaxi service area in Houston much bigger. In a post on X on the morning of October 26, 2026, Tesla's official Robotaxi account wrote: "Houston, we have liftoff. Bigger service area now live." The map it posted shows the old zone in Houston's northwest sitting inside a new one that stretches southeast through downtown Houston to Bellaire.
Tesla's Robotaxi account posted a map of Houston on October 26 with the words "Houston, we have liftoff. Bigger service area now live" (Robotaxi on X). The map shows two outlines. The "old geofence", in white, is a small area in the city's northwest. The "new geofence", in blue, wraps around it and runs southeast across the city, through downtown Houston and down to Bellaire.
A geofence is the boundary a Robotaxi rider has to be inside to book a trip. Tesla's post doesn't say how many square kilometres the new area covers, how many vehicles serve it, which models they are, or what the hours are. Some trackers and outlets have put numbers on those things, but Tesla hasn't, so we're leaving them out.
Tesla Robotaxi: "Houston, we have liftoff. Bigger service area now live."
Tesla's latest official numbers come from its Q3 2026 Update, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 21. It said Tesla began putting Cybercab into its Robotaxi fleet in Austin, with Cybercab rides starting on September 3, and that the service had reached nearly two million cumulative unsupervised miles by the end of September. It also said Austin's operating hours are now 6 a.m. to midnight.
Not directly. Tesla doesn't run Robotaxi in Canada. What Canadians can buy is FSD (Supervised), which Tesla Canada lists at $99 a month. Tesla says those features "require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous" (Tesla Canada). Houston matters here mainly as a sign of how quickly Tesla is widening its driverless service in the U.S.
For more on how FSD works here, see our FSD in Canada guide, or read our stories on Tesla's Robotaxi Safety Report and Robotaxi's new 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. hours.
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