Tesla operates 42 unsupervised Robotaxis in Texas, far below Musk's forecast, while Waymo has 577
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Rani Molla
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Summary
Tesla has only 42 unsupervised Robotaxis operating in Texas, far below Elon Musk's ambitious 2025 forecast that the service would reach half the US population by year-end. In comparison, Alphabet's Waymo has 577 autonomous vehicles on the road. The data comes from a newly required Texas government database, highlighting Tesla's struggles to scale its camera-only autonomous vehicle technology commercially.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledForty-two is the answer to life, the universe, and everything in Douglas Adams' classic 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' It's also the number of unsupervised Robotaxis Tesla has on the road in Texas.
That's much lower than CEO Elon Musk had hoped, as the company struggles to ready its camera-only autonomous vehicles for commercial scale.
In 2025, Musk said that the service would be available to 'half the population of the US by the end of the year.'
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