Robotaxi in Dallas: who drives where, and what is still outside the line.

Dallas is the one place in the country where you can stand on a corner in Uptown and plausibly be picked up by three different robotaxi companies, depending on which app you open. That makes “is there a robotaxi in Dallas?” an easy question and “will one take me where I am going?” a much harder one. Each operator drew its own line on the map, none of them publishes a street-by-street list, and the lines have moved this year.

This guide sorts it out by operator and then by place, with a date on every claim. If you are here because you are thinking about owning a car that earns on one of these networks rather than riding in one, skip to what Dallas means for an owner.

Is there a robotaxi in Dallas?

Yes. As of October 27, 2026, three services carry paying passengers on Dallas streets:

• Tesla Robotaxi. Tesla’s first-quarter shareholder update says it launched unsupervised rides in Dallas and Houston in April (Tesla Q1 2026 update, April 22, 2026, filed with the SEC). The cars are Model Ys with an empty driver’s seat.
• Waymo. First public riders on February 24, 2026, then open to anyone with the Waymo app from August 4, 2026, after nearly 150,000 people came through its interest list (Waymo, August 4, 2026). Fully driverless Jaguar I-Pace vehicles (TechCrunch, August 4, 2026).
• Avride, through Uber. Avride’s Hyundai Ioniq 5s have taken Uber riders since December 2025 (Uber, December 3, 2025). They still carry a safety driver who can take over, and the company had not set a date for removing them as of August (Dallas Morning News, August 19, 2026).

A fourth company, Zoox, began mapping central Dallas neighborhoods in March with retrofitted SUVs and a safety driver in every one (Zoox, March 9, 2026). We found no report of Zoox carrying the public in Dallas.

Is there a robotaxi in Fort Worth or Arlington?

Not that we can find, as of October 27, 2026. None of the reported Tesla, Waymo or Avride boundaries reaches Tarrant County, where Fort Worth and Arlington sit, and Uber’s own city pages say “Autonomous Uber rides are not yet available” in Fort Worth and in Arlington (both read October 27, 2026). Arlington is the one to watch: Uber and May Mobility named it as the first city for their partnership in May 2025, planning to start with onboard safety operators (Uber and May Mobility, May 1, 2025). We found no report that it has launched.

Is Tesla’s robotaxi live in Dallas?

Yes, and it has been unsupervised from the start. Three things have changed since the April launch.

• The zone grew. On August 29, 2026, Tesla’s Robotaxi account posted “Bigger service area for Robotaxi in Dallas, TX” with the old and new boundaries overlaid, but gave no size (Tesla North, August 30, 2026). Tracker data put it at 81 square miles, up from 31 at launch (Not a Tesla App, August 31, 2026).
• The miles are piling up. Tesla’s first Robotaxi Safety Report, which counts only miles with no safety monitor in the car, credits Dallas with 608,130 autonomous miles from January 22 through October 18, 2026, against 2,118,015 in Austin and 225,964 in Houston. Those are Tesla’s own numbers, not audited (Not a Tesla App, October 21, 2026; Tesla North, October 21, 2026).
• The Cybercab is next. On Tesla’s October 21 earnings call, Ashok Elluswamy said “next month, we’ll be launching in Dallas” when asked how Cybercab service grows past Austin. That is a spoken target, not a published date, and as of October 23 Tesla’s Cybercab FAQ still listed rides only in limited areas of Austin (our write-up of the call).

Where do robotaxis operate in Dallas? The service area, operator by operator

No company publishes a Dallas boundary as a list of streets, so what follows is pieced together from launch coverage and the maps the companies posted. Inside each app, the map is the final word.

Tesla: the biggest, and the most recently redrawn

At launch, FOX 4 described the Tesla zone as “focused on central neighborhoods and Highland Park” (FOX 4, April 20, 2026). The August redraw pushed it out in three directions. Per Tesla Oracle’s read of the new map, it runs “West toward Irving / US-183, now including the I-30 corridor,” “South through more of downtown down to I-35E,” and adds modest coverage northeast of Highland Park, “still short of I-635 and I-45” (Tesla Oracle, September 1, 2026). A September description of the Dallas zone named Oak Lawn, Highland Park, University Park, Bluffview and the Parkland Health campus, with Love Field on its western border and Lower Greenville on its eastern one (Not a Tesla App, September 29, 2026).

One caution on size: that same September 29 article still listed Dallas at 31 square miles, the pre-expansion figure, while the August reports say about 80. Tesla has published neither number. We use “about 80” because two reports on the new map arrived at it (81 from Not a Tesla App, about 80 from Tesla Oracle), possibly from the same tracker data, so treat it as an estimate.

Waymo: central Dallas, city streets only

Waymo’s area is about 50 square miles of central Dallas with Northwest Highway as its northern edge and the Bishop Arts District and parts of South Dallas as its southern one (Dallas Innovates, February 24, 2026). NBC DFW described it reaching north toward Love Field and through the Park Cities (NBC DFW, February 24, 2026). Trips stay on surface streets: Waymo said in August it would “soon” begin driverless testing on Dallas freeways, which it called the last step before offering those routes to riders (Waymo, August 4, 2026). Waymo’s October 27 expansion covered five other metros and not Dallas (Electrek, October 27, 2026).

Avride on Uber: small, dense, and growing

Avride launched across 9 square miles covering Downtown, Uptown, Turtle Creek and Deep Ellum (Uber, December 3, 2025). By August it had passed 100,000 rides and said it had doubled the original zone (Dallas Morning News, August 19, 2026). We have not found a published map of the doubled area.

Dallas robotaxi zone status, place by place

The quick answer to “does it reach my neighborhood?” Read every “no” as “no service reported as of our check,” not as a promise the boundary has not moved.

For every metro side by side, see the US robotaxi map, Dallas entry.

How much does a robotaxi cost in Dallas?

It depends on which service shows up, because the three price differently.

• Tesla launched Dallas at an introductory $3.25 base fare plus $1.00 a mile, according to Tesla’s website as reported at launch (FOX 4, April 20, 2026). At that rate a 3-mile trip is about $6.25 and a 10-mile trip about $13.25. Tesla called it introductory, so check the quote in the app before you ride.
• Waymo quotes each trip in its app. We did not find a published Dallas per-mile rate.
• Avride rides are ordinary Uber trips: you request UberX, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric and pay that price, with no surcharge for being matched to the robotaxi (Uber, December 3, 2025).

How do you get a robotaxi in Dallas?

There is no single “robotaxi” button. You pick the operator by picking the app.

• Tesla: download the Tesla Robotaxi app (a separate app from the one Tesla owners use for their cars), set a pickup inside the zone, and watch the car come to you. The steps are the same as in Austin, which we walked through in how to ride a Cybercab in Austin.
• Waymo: download the Waymo app and request a ride. Since August 4 there is no waitlist in Dallas.
• Avride: open Uber and request UberX, Comfort or Comfort Electric inside Avride’s area. If you are matched with an Avride car, the app tells you and you can accept it or ask for a regular driver. To be matched more often, turn it on under Settings, then Ride Preferences (Uber, December 3, 2025).

Can a robotaxi take you to Love Field or DFW Airport?

Not yet, at either airport. This is the gap most visitors run into.

Love Field is the close one. It sits right on the western edge of Tesla’s reported zone and within the area NBC DFW described for Waymo, and Waymo has been running fully driverless tests at its terminals. In August Waymo said it looked forward to serving Love Field travelers “soon,” and FOX 4 reported that no date had been set for public airport or highway rides (FOX 4, August 4, 2026). Freeway access matters here: the fastest routes to the terminals use roads Waymo does not yet drive with riders.

DFW International sits between Dallas and Fort Worth, well outside every boundary described above. We found no report of any robotaxi operator picking up or dropping off there.

The same applies to the big Arlington venues. AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field are in a city where Uber says autonomous rides are not yet available. If a game or a concert is the trip, plan on a human driver for now.

Where do Dallas robotaxis live between rides?

Every one of these cars needs a place to charge, get cleaned and wait for the next trip, and Dallas has the most public record of that work of any metro.

• Waymo’s cars are looked after by Avis Budget Group, which handles charging and maintenance at the Dallas depot (TechCrunch, August 4, 2026). Neither company has said where it is.
• Tesla won Irving zoning approval on July 16, 2026, by an 8-0 council vote, for a robotaxi hub at 4203 W. Royal Lane, just south of I-635. At the hearing Tesla said it already runs six similar facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and in May it had said the Irving site could initially hold 1,000 vehicles (Coppell Chronicle, July 19, 2026).
• Zoox has said it will open a Dallas depot but has not named a site (Zoox, March 9, 2026).

Each documented site is tracked with its status and source date in our robotaxi depot database. A note on power for anyone planning a site: the Cybercab charges on DC only, through its NACS port, with no onboard AC charger, so a lot that only has Level 2 posts is not a Cybercab lot.

What Dallas means for an owner

Every robotaxi on Dallas streets today belongs to the company running it. That includes Tesla’s, and it will include the first Dallas Cybercabs: on the October 21 call Tesla described Cybercab as mainly a transport service and said the vast majority would be essentially Tesla-owned. It said it is trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of 2026, starting small, and published no price, order page or owner program terms (our write-up of the call).

So the honest read for a DFW buyer: Dallas has the network a Cybercab would earn on, a city the Cybercab is headed to next, and a state law that leaves the rules to the state rather than to Dallas City Hall (Texas robotaxi law, in plain English; the Texas page). What it does not have yet is any way for a private owner to put a car on that network. Nobody can tell you what a privately owned Cybercab will earn in Dallas, and we will not pretend to. The earnings calculator shows the math under assumptions you choose, labeled as projections.

As for DockDuty: there is no DockDuty depot in Dallas, and none is promised. Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026. Dallas is Demand open, which means owners can name it when they reserve and the count is published on our Dallas page; nothing else is committed. A stall reservation is $450, fully refundable until your vehicle is onboarded, and credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee.

Robotaxi Dallas FAQ

Is there a robotaxi in Dallas?
Yes, three as of October 27, 2026. Tesla runs unsupervised Model Y rides (since April 2026), Waymo runs fully driverless rides open to anyone with its app (since August 4, 2026), and Avride runs Hyundai Ioniq 5s through Uber with a safety driver still behind the wheel (since December 2025). Zoox is testing with safety drivers.

Is the Cybercab available in Dallas?
Not yet. On October 21, 2026, Tesla said it would launch Cybercab rides in Dallas “next month.” That is a spoken target. As of October 23, Tesla’s Cybercab FAQ listed rides only in limited areas of Austin, and there is no public order page.

What is the Dallas robotaxi service area?
Each operator has its own. Tesla’s zone was enlarged on August 29, 2026 and is estimated by trackers at about 80 square miles, from the Park Cities and Oak Lawn west toward Irving and south through downtown. Waymo covers about 50 square miles of central Dallas between Northwest Highway and Bishop Arts. Avride launched across 9 square miles of Downtown, Uptown, Turtle Creek and Deep Ellum and says it has doubled. The live map in each app is the final word.

Can a robotaxi take me to Love Field or DFW Airport?
Not as of October 27, 2026. Waymo is testing at the Love Field terminals and has not given a date for public airport trips. We found no robotaxi service at DFW.

Is there a robotaxi in Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano or Frisco?
We found none. Uber says autonomous rides are not yet available in Fort Worth or Arlington, and the reported Tesla and Waymo zones stop well short of Plano and Frisco. Uber and May Mobility have named Arlington as a planned launch city.

Can I own a robotaxi that earns in Dallas?
Not yet. Every robotaxi in Dallas is company-owned, and Tesla has published no terms for customer-owned cars to join its network. DockDuty has no Dallas depot; Orlando is our lead market, with its depot targeted for Q4 2026, and Dallas is Demand open on our Dallas page.