The honest part: Tesla's driverless Robotaxi fleet is still modest in scale and trails Waymo badly on total paid trips, so anyone calling it a finished, mass-scale service is overselling it. But "vaporware" is flatly wrong. From January 2026 Tesla began running Austin Robotaxis with no safety monitor in the car — genuinely driverless, paying-passenger rides, first on a limited share of the fleet and then growing — and by late 2026 the service operated unsupervised across six US cities (Austin, Dallas and Houston in Texas; Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida), had passed a million unsupervised miles, and had begun rolling out the purpose-built Cybercab. "Vaporware" means a product promised and never shipped; a driverless car you can hail and ride across six cities 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.