Tesla maps a Miami robotaxi zone while its Austin fleet shrinks to ~14 cars
Tesla published a Robotaxi geofence covering only a strip of West Miami — the rides there now run fully unsupervised, but a map is not scale. A year after Austin's launch, that unsupervised fleet has slid from a peak of 25 cars to roughly 14, with waits past 15 minutes and a crash rate independent analysis puts near four times a human driver's. Musk ties expansion to an unshipped FSD v15, marking the real bottleneck as safety validation, not drawing new city polygons.
Source: electrek.co ↗
independent analysis has pointed to a crash rate roughly four times worse than the average human driver
Electrek analysis
Why this matters
- → Austin fleet shrunk from 25 to 14 unsupervised cars despite year-long operation.
- → Crash rate four times worse than human drivers; safety validation is actual bottleneck.
- → New city maps mask fundamental scaling problem Musk tied to unreleased FSD v15.
Maps vs. reality