If Waymo and other robotaxi operators offer any example, a 100-car fleet could be needed in a large city like Austin. That's the approximate number of cars Waymo operates in Los Angeles, serving ...

EV stalwart Tesla is officially in the robotaxi game, but it’s fashionably late. Its enigmatic CEO once promised a million driverless Teslas by 2020. What we've got, though, in 2025 was a 10-car ...

Tesla launched the Robotaxi service in Austin on June 22, one of those rare moments when Elon Musk's predictions proved true. Depending on who you ask, the new service is either a resounding ...

Tesla TSLA2.22%increase; green up pointing triangle rolled out its long-awaited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, opening the electric-vehicle maker to the growing autonomous ride ...

Tesla Inc. on Sunday rolled out its first robotaxi service in a U.S. city, a key part of Chief Executive Elon Musk’s ambitious plans for autonomous vehicles — a subject on which he’s been ...

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Sawyer Merritt, a Tesla investor, said that he had taken 20 robotaxi rides, traveling 92 miles over a 36-hour period. "All my rides were smooth and comfortable," Merritt posted on X on Tuesday.

In ramping up robotaxi service, Tesla is hoping to slingshot past Waymo, another autonomous car service that operates in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin, according to its website.

Motional is developing autonomous vehicles capable of handling a wide range of real-world scenarios. Its high-speed robotaxi testing reached speeds of 75 mph.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made the robotaxi program a priority and any trouble with it could be highly damaging to the company’s stock price, which had tumbled 20% this year.

Google-backed Waymo moves ahead with expansion plans in a number of US cities in 2025, after a successful 2024 that saw 150,000 robotaxi rides every day. Amazon-backed Zoox is gearing up to expand ...