Tesla Expands Houston Robotaxi Zone to 254 Square Miles

Tesla expanded the service area of its Robotaxi in Houston from about 25 to about 254 square miles, a 916% increase, as announced by the official Robotaxi account on X. The new rocket-shaped zone covers about 1.2 million residents, from Copperfield and Jersey Village in the northwest to Missouri City in the southwest, but does not include the IAH or HOU airports. According to a comparison map by @xdNiBoR, the zone is about five times larger than Waymo's 49-square-mile service area in Houston. Rides are fully driverless in retrofitted Model Y vehicles.…

• Houston Robotaxi zone grows from about 25 to 254 square miles (+916%).
• Covers about 1.2 million residents, but not the IAH or HOU airports.

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