{"id":1059,"date":"2025-06-20T02:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T02:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/teslas-robotaxi-debut-will-reportedly-be-limited-to-only-10-cars-in-very-specific-areas\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T02:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T02:16:45","slug":"teslas-robotaxi-debut-will-reportedly-be-limited-to-only-10-cars-in-very-specific-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/teslas-robotaxi-debut-will-reportedly-be-limited-to-only-10-cars-in-very-specific-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla&#8217;s robotaxi debut will reportedly be limited to only 10 cars in very specific areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The long-promised launch of Tesla&rsquo;s robotaxi service in Austin is scheduled for June 22, and it sounds like the company&rsquo;s initial offering will be modest at best. <em>The Financial Times <\/em>writes that Tesla will only have around 10 cars available for rides and that the company plans to make them &ldquo;avoid the city&rsquo;s most challenging intersections.&rdquo; If issues arise, remote operators will also reportedly be able to take control of the cars to make sure they reach their final destination.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk told <em>CNBC<\/em> in May that the robotaxi service might launch with less than a dozen cars, so that&rsquo;s not necessarily a surprise, but the actual scope may be even smaller. Analysts <em>The New York Times<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>spoke to believe rides in Tesla&rsquo;s robotaxi will only be available to &ldquo;company employees or invited guests.&rdquo; It could take months before the service is made available to the wider public.<\/p>\n<p>Musk formally introduced the company&rsquo;s robotaxi service and its self-driving Cybercab at an event in October 2024, but the idea has been a promised feature for Tesla owners for even longer. The pitch goes that since all Teslas are equipped with the cameras necessary for the company&rsquo;s self-driving system, any of them can be converted into a cab while not in use. Musk believes autonomous transport could be so widespread that it becomes as cheap as mass transit, while being safer than relying on a human driver.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the company&rsquo;s Full Self Driving system can pull that off is an open question. Tesla is currently being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for autonomous driving-related crashes. The company has also reportedly blocked the city of Austin from handing over its robotaxi records, which suggests it&rsquo;s at least somewhat self-conscious about how it will perform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Tesla&rsquo;s robotaxi debut will reportedly be limited to only 10 cars in very specific areas<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-promised launch of Tesla&rsquo;s robotaxi service in Austin is scheduled for June 22, and it sounds like the company&rsquo;s initial offering will be modest at best. The Financial Times writes that Tesla will only have around 10 cars available for rides and that the company plans to make them &ldquo;avoid the city&rsquo;s most challenging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/teslas-robotaxi-debut-will-reportedly-be-limited-to-only-10-cars-in-very-specific-areas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Tesla&#8217;s robotaxi debut will reportedly be limited to only 10 cars in very specific areas&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}