Tesla expands Robotaxi service to Miami, marking its first rollout beyond Texas

More than a year after launching its Robotaxi service in Austin, Tesla has now expanded the service to Miami. For now, operations are restricted to a small section of the city's western and central areas, excluding downtown Miami and Miami Beach, according to a service map shared by Tesla on X.

Tesla is entering a market where rivals have already established a presence. Waymo has been operating in Miami since January 2026, while Amazon-owned Zoox expanded into the city in April.

The Miami rollout marks the first time Tesla's fully autonomous EVs have become available outside Texas, although a limited number of rides are also being conducted in San Francisco. Earlier this year, Tesla announced plans to expand its Robotaxi service to four additional US cities in 2026, including Orlando, Tampa, Las Vegas, and Phoenix.

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However, the pace of the rollout still falls short of CEO Elon Musk's earlier prediction that Robotaxi services would cover around 50 percent of the US population by the end of 2025.

According to Bloomberg, Tesla currently operates around 59 Robotaxis across the United States—far fewer than the 577 autonomous taxis operating in Texas alone. The programme has also been slowed by regulatory and safety-related hurdles. A March report by Reuters said Tesla had not logged any autonomous vehicle testing hours in California in 2025, leaving it well short of the state's required testing benchmarks.

Tesla's FSD setback in Europe

Tesla has been aiming to establish itself as an early leader in Europe's autonomous driving market, but its ambitions recently suffered a setback after the company was accused of presenting misleading safety data to European regulators.

According to an earlier Reuters report, independent traffic safety researchers challenged Tesla's self-published safety statistics, which the company had used to promote its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system by claiming it was up to 10 times safer than human drivers. Reuters' review found several invalid data comparisons that appeared to inflate Tesla's safety claims, raising fresh questions over the company's approach to marketing its autonomous driving technology.