Tesla's 'fleet' Of Unsupervised Robotaxis In Texas Appears To Have Been Cut From 8 Cars To Only 4

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Last we checked successful connected Tesla and its efforts to make self-driving cars a reality, its alleged "Full Self-Driving" package had once again grounded to extremity astatine an progressive railroad crossing, a problem Tesla has known astir for years but still hasn't fixed. Oh, and we besides learned precocious that Tesla's robotaxis person been crashing astatine a complaint 4 times higher than quality drivers. So, unless you paid to person your lingua surgically attached to Elon's boot, it shouldn't travel arsenic overmuch of a astonishment to study that it besides looks for illustration Tesla's trim nan number of unsupervised robotaxis successful its fleet successful Austin, Texas. 

In December 2025, Elon announced plans to statesman rolling retired robotaxis successful Austin that would nary longer usage information monitors. They mightiness still get tailed by a information show successful a abstracted car, but officially, Tesla now has unsupervised robotaxis connected nan streets successful Austin. Except, according to nan Robotaxi Tracker, nan number of unsupervised robotaxis successful nan fleet maxed retired astatine a full 8 vehicles. At slightest 4 of those haven't been seen successful nan past 30 days, though, suggesting that Tesla's full fleet of unsupervised robotaxis successful Austin is now constricted to conscionable 4 cars total.

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For anyone pursuing on intimately astatine home, aft failing to present existent self-driving cars for much than a decade, Elon Musk decided to launch a robotaxi work successful Austin successful June 2025. Following nan launch, it only took a azygous time for Tesla's robotaxis to break capable postulation laws that it drew nan feds' attention, and oh, by nan way, they weren't really existent robotaxis, because they still needed "safety monitors" connected board to hopefully support nan Model Ys from sidesplitting anyone aliases making excessively galore mistakes. Only successful December did Tesla commencement testing robotaxis that didn't person information monitors inside.

Considering much than a cardinal group unrecorded successful Austin, and astatine slightest a cardinal brides observe their bachelorette parties location each weekend, 4 unsupervised robotaxis isn't very many. Then again, location aren't very galore cars successful nan wide fleet, either. According to nan Robotaxi Tracker, location are only 37 full Tesla robotaxis successful each of Austin. That's astir apt 37 Tesla robotaxis excessively many, but it's besides a batch little than you'd expect aft astir a twelvemonth successful operation. At slightest if Tesla's self-driving package is arsenic adjacent to cleanable arsenic Elon wants investors to believe. 

Is it imaginable that Tesla's fleet of unsupervised robotaxis being trim successful half is simply a motion nan exertion is overhyped, Tesla banal is overvalued, and Elon Musk is thing much than an incredibly able conman? No, that doesn't look right. This must each beryllium portion of Elon's scheme to make nan upcoming Cybercab moreover much desirable. Once nan Cybercab lands, that banal is going to nan moon, baby, and we're each getting rich, guaranteed. Are you reasoning $5 trillion valuation? I'm reasoning $5 trillion valuation.