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Tesla's once-bullish tone on robotaxis shifts, World News
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Fusion42 · 24 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Tesla has significantly scaled back its robotaxi expansion targets and shifted from claiming a universally deployable technology to a city-by-city regulatory approach, with only 2.5 million miles driven versus Waymo's 220+ million, triggering a 13% stock drop. The company now acknowledges operational and regulatory complexity that contradicts earlier claims of hyper-exponential growth.
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If you're building autonomous vehicle technology outside Tesla and Waymo, the market just proved that 'works anywhere' doesn't — every city needs bespoke regulatory and operational work. That means fragmentation favours specialists who own a city's regulatory relationship, not generalists chasing scale.
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