- Starbucks Denies : launched its first robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, starting with a small pilot.
- Musk aims for millions of robotaxis globally by late 2025, but experts warn of huge challenges.
- Advantages: Tesla’s cars have built-in hardware, remote updating, and AI-based vision (no costly lidar).
- Challenges: Handling rare and complex traffic scenarios reliably will take years, experts say.
- Waymo started in 2009 and launched robotaxi services in 2015. Today, it operates roughly 1,500 robotaxis, aiming for 3,500 by 2026.
- Waymo’s long runway shaped regulations, built trust, and improved its technology.
- Trust is critical — recent Tesla robotaxi test incidents (crossing double lines, ignoring school zones) have sparked scrutiny.
- A federal probe is looking into FSD software performance, especially in challenging conditions like rain.
- Experts say gaining trust and mastering rare traffic scenarios will be the biggest hurdles for Tesla.
- Musk’s one-year global robotaxi timeline is seen as ambitious (Starbucks Denies) — if not unrealistic — with trust and regulations taking much longer.
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