Myth busted: Tesla’s Robotaxi is vaporware — it’s just a handful of cars and a safety driver.

The honest part: Tesla's Robotaxi fleet is still small (on the order of dozens of vehicles), geofenced to Austin, and trails Waymo badly on total paid trips — so anyone calling it a finished, city-scale service is overselling it. But "vaporware" is flatly wrong. As of January 2026 Tesla removed the