In the next 5 months: Dallas Houston Phoenix Miami Orlando Tampa Vegas
Once it tackles Chicago and New York in winter, it will be almost there.
No brainer sun belt cities
Surprised no LA
This should be expected, why would they deploy to higher risk areas first?
Probably not interested in playing games w Cali laws
It’s already in the Bay Area
Waymo dominates LA
Of all the things that won’t happen in the next five months, this won’t happen the most.
Has it run in the boring tunnels in Vegas yet?
Wow. A skeptic? That's new. /s
Wow, Elon promising things to come that won’t. That’s new.
Finally an answer to replace the low to no profit taxi industry
You are confusing a tweet from Elon with actual investor communication from the company. This is the latter.
Why not? They're already in several cities testing, and doing unsupervised rides in Austin... These are all cities that don't get have harsh winter weather, so I'm not sure how it's a far reach.
Investor communication from the company hasn’t exactly been truthful…. Remember their ‘multiple new models’ in h1 2025 they kept on repeating that turned out to be a model y without ventilated seats? The expected 50% growth… that turned into a decline? Many more examples. They’ll probably put a couple cars with drivers in the seat and call it a success.
Try think a bit harder on the topic mate.
They're just parroting Elon.
Wasn't waymo dominating in Texas before Tesla did their rollout?
Investing in Tesla is not mandatory. If you don't trust the official communication from the company, then do not buy shares. That would be crazy.
Nope.
Waymo is still dominating Texas
Of course… all warm climates.
They started doing Waymo in some places here in miami. I can see them doing it in a similar limited portion of miami. Non related it took me too long to process that 1H meant first half.
Tesla has maybe 25-35 operating when conditions are food. When conditions are not great, many disappear from service.
Cool, I guess this means we are getting Tesla Robotaxi before Waymo in Tampa.
I can't wait to see how that superior "vision only" handles the chickens in Miami....
Waymos pull over when it rains, too. So that's not an unexpected occurrence in the current state of AVs.
Elon promised that FSD-enabled cars (with cameras only) would be able to autonomously drive passengers from one location to another with no driver needed. They delivered that. Do you disagree? Elon also promised it'd be coming in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, etc. etc. Yeah, sure, he biffed that big time. No one is denying that.
Apparently they just had their first driverless cybercab in Austin the other day. Now it's nowhere to be found (believe me, people are trying). Regulations don't allow the "driver" to not be in the seat. Hell, regulations don't even allow you to be on your phone in the driver seat while it's driving. I would say no, they have not delivered.
OF COURSE I disagree. Prove me wrong by having you or someone you know, go to Austin, randomly hail a Tesla Robotaxi from anywhere in the service area, and have it take you anywhere else in the service area. If there’s no safety driver, and no safety car following behind, THEN I’ll agree they’ve delivered. But even doing the above isn’t a business, yet. You have to be able to do the above tens of thousands of times, safely. Elon has proven very willing to have others die to support his own goals, but let’s see if civil authorities and other road users share the same willingness.
Legally they are the same. That's been established in court
I'm keen to see how they fix this, I have a brand new HW4 M3 with the front bumper camera and the car complains at least 5 times a day that cameras are blinded or impaired. It does seem to be based on bad weather, dirt and night driving (quite a few UK motorways don't have lighting).. even on good days it complains about lane keeping being unavailable due to road markings being degraded which will NEVER be fixed in the UK I regularly clean all cameras that are visibly dirty through camera preview.
Can they try Sacramento? If you can survive the humans there, you can survive them anywhere! 😂
> OF COURSE I disagree. Prove me wrong... Of course you do - too much /r/SelfDrivingCars brain rot to think clearly any more ... but ... uh: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1qqlpgg/unsupervised_robotaxi_with_no_chase_car/ > If there’s no safety driver, and no safety car following behind, THEN I’ll agree they’ve delivered. So, *now* you agree? Or are you going to lug around the goalposts some more, maybe tell me how Elon promised this 10 years ago?
This one influencer video does indeed suggest that Tesla may indeed have achieved what Waymo achieved 5 and a half years ago. Now if I were nitpicking I could of course say it’s not actually clear how random this ride was (customer, hailing location, drop off, etc). But that’s irrelevant because it if works it works and in a few weeks there’ll be so many of these videos they’ll be boring, and in 5 months all these additional cities will have Robotaxi services as promised.
Are we not allowed to point out examples of unfulfilled promises from the company unless we're investors?
I really do t understand why, that seems easier than anything else.
I was wondering why Denver wasn’t there. I know it barely has a 1 million population metro area but still. The snow is the problem
Can tesla car function in -30? I guess, my relationship has it.
Snow and terrain (mountains)
they gotta do san diego
They fix it with trains and trams.
There is a difference between Waymos pulling over when it’s unsafe… vs Tesla removing their cars from service completely or restricting its service when the conditions aren’t ideal enough.
Holy shit, seriously? **How???** How is Tesla potentially "removing cars from service" due to inclement weather any different from Waymo saying "[hey, it's raining, so I'm just going to stop](https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comments/1iow5k4/pulled_over_waymo_due_to_rain/)"?? Please tell me what kind of hairs you're splitting to draw some kind of distinction in there.
The difference is that with Waymo at least we get transparency. Tesla doesn’t release any information, but users have reported during certain times of the day they cannot seem to get a robotaxi for specific routes. Most likely due to bad weather and even sunset/sunrise as driving towards the sun has been known to hamper the use of cameras.
> Tesla doesn’t release any information Not true at all. I'm literally staring at the NHTSA data set right now. They have basically included data in every field in the dataset as every other provider has, except for two: * The field "Automation Feature Version" - so someone like Waymo might report "5th Generation ADS, Version 10" for example. Tesla redacted this. No biggie overall IMO, it's probably "Unsupervised FSD HW4.5" or something like that. * The "narrative" field where details about each incident are provided. I would agree, they shouldn't be redacting that 2nd field. But every other data element reported to NHTSA is *literally* identical to every other provider on the road.
Manhattan has rush hour traffic cops to stop gridlock, who use hand signals to direct traffic, often completely opposite of what the traffic lights are saying. How on earth will Robotaxis ever be trained to ignore traffic lights and listen instead to the hands and arms and whistles of traffic cops?
Denver itself is super flat.
We are talking about which one to trust more.
Tesla’s FSD (Full self driving) feature already can handle traffic cops and hand signals. Robotaxi’s software is even more advanced than FSD. But yes a major older city like NYC or Chicago brings many challenges not easy to solve.
Wow I didn’t know that. Are there any videos you know of that show which hand signals robotaxi understands? My concern has always been that anyone could impersonate a traffic cop and stop a robotaxi with their raised hand and then direct it down a shady alleyway for some sort of crime intent.
Not promising- https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/s/W0QVfXUTn5
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Here is one: [wave!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/s/J6rFHuZPDz)
Hmm. I’m not sure this is actually reassuring. What this tells me is that any civilian can probably wave a Tesla using FSD through a red light. No way does FSD know how to distinguish a traffic cop from a random person waving!
Never been to Denver huh
When is Vancouver ?
Going to revise my earlier answer to reaffirm that I’m still 100% correct on the above assertion: https://electrek.co/2026/02/16/tesla-robotaxi-status-check-8-months-in/
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