Teslas bullish tone on robotaxis shifts

Tesla's robotaxi rollout has fallen sharply behind initial promises, expanding to only a handful of cities across Texas and Florida since launching in Austin in June 2025, with service limited to outlying areas and unsupervised miles trailing Waymo by orders of magnitude. The company's earnings call revealed city-by-city regulatory and operational hurdles that contradict earlier claims of a 'general solution that works anywhere', forcing Tesla to scale more deliberately than investors anticipated.

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