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 in-car safety monitor entirely, putting genuinely driverless, paying-passenger Teslas on public roads, and by June 2026 the service covered the full ~245-square-mile Austin metro including the airport. "Vaporware" means a product that was promised and never shipped; a driverless car you can actually hail and ride in is, by definition, shipped. The fair criticism is about scale and pace, not existence — and Tesla's camera-only approach, if it generalises, is far cheaper to expand than lidar-mapped rivals because the hardware already ships on millions of cars.