Tesla does not have a strong history of releasing things on time or promised functionality. After the latest in a series of failures, it seems that EV veteran’s long -awaited robotaxi service will continue that trend. While Tesla’s internal sources now report that the program will begin Austin, June 12 in TexasIt is still not clear what it would look like then.
In 2019, CEO Elon Musk said it was “very confident” that Tesla Robotaxis would be launched in 2020 and by 2022, there would be any non-tesla vehicle. Look like horses In comparison. For 2025, rapidly forward, nor prophecy has come true. Its hope is still waiting on an autonomous taxi, and the company’s full self-driving features have a history of accidents, which is roughly failing to identify obstacles.
It is not to be said that the automaker has not seen any victory recently. It looks ready to emerge from high tariffs on the auto industry, which is relatively dissatisfied, which is not a case for many other American car manufacturers. Tesla can also help Tesla by loosening rollbacks and self-driving rules on crash reporting requirements, its autonomous features have been given a minimum safety record.
Nevertheless, Tesla’s promised robotaxi service can withstand a difficult fight to get off the ground. Even a name has proved difficult to decide, as is the American Patent Office rejected Tesla’s trademark effort for “robotaxi”.
According to the patent office, the target name of Tesla is used to describe similar goods and services by other companies by other companies. ” Tesla tried to trademark “cybercab” as an alternative, but patent office rejected This attempt, the word “cab” was generic and “cyber” was also saying that “was similar to a registered mark that it was likely that consumers would be confused, wrong or cheated.”
Failing to secure the trademark is far from the only challenge faced by the autonomous taxi service. Earlier this year, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) started Test In fact, 2.6 million Tesels caused many unattainable accidents after the Smart Saman feature.
The investigation comes on one of the heels of one and one of the NHTSA opened in October 2024. This earlier investigation concerned Tesla’s full self-driving function, causing allegedly crashed in low light, an incident also killed a pedestrian. Such major safety concerns over the company’s autonomous capabilities expressed doubts whether its robotaxi service could safely transport anyone.
Last year, Tesla placed 10% of his workforce, which symbolizes both a major problem and can carry forward further issues. The delivery of the vehicle is decreasing to the brand, to tighten the margin, and less employees can make it difficult to roll the required self-driving reforms on time. Nevertheless, a new announcement has been made for the launch date of June 12, it seems that those obstacles have not prevented the service from rolling out for now.
Despite these obstacles, Musk says Tesla Will Start robotaxi production in 2026Which does not seem possible. Given that he also said that he was confident in the release of 2020, it is difficult to hold a lot of stake in his claims about a release timeline. Tesla has at least already prototypes, but it is far from the government approved, far from working models. For regulators such as NHTSA, Musk’s relationship for the administration and Dogi’s workforce can reduce the government from a barrier, but the maturity of technology is still uncertain. And mask Sudden sharp relationship Once with Trump, there may be new issues for favorite automakers.
Autonomous taxi services, as a whole, have proved challenging on the scale. GM started tests Self-driving cars in 2016, citing high cost and rising competition only to cancel the project in 2024. Driverless vehicles require immense resources, and even after years of progress, they are still perfect. The series of Tesla of accidents highlights safety concerns.
Of course, some robotaxi services have successfully carried out passengers in some cities and successfully sailed. However, obtaining approval to run these programs is a long and complex process that Tesla has just started. This recently Obtained An essential California permit but also not applied for a license required from DMV to charge customers for allegedly autonomous taxi services. Texas, however, requires no special licensing for autonomous vehicles, so Robotaxi release on 12 June in Austin is still possible.
Once the Tesla regulator secures the approval, its robotax rollout may not look at all as it was suggested in October. Most especially, Musk has confirmed that it will begin with the existing model XS and model YS, not smooth, trademark-nam-lambked cab is shown in that event.
John Craffick is the CEO of former Wemo Criticized Tesla’s taxi design, saying that “it becomes difficult for people to get in and out easily – not everyone will be able to use these robotaxi vehicles comfortably.” He also suggested that Tesla’s self-driving claims could be misleading, citing “many ways to fake a robotaxi service”.
Tesla is under investigation before Tesla Claims to display autonomous robots When machines were actually remote-controlled by humans. Its robotaxis can do the same, especially a distance steering function may be required for safety purposes given Tesla. There is a lot of uncertainty around robotaxi release, but it seems that it will definitely not show Tesla.
