Tesla's once-bullish tone on robotaxis shifts

Tesla's robotaxi rollout has significantly underperformed its public commitments, expanding to only a handful of cities with limited service areas instead of the promised half-US coverage by end-2025. The company acknowledged on earnings that regulatory and operational complexity requires slower city-by-city expansion, contradicting earlier claims of rapid scalability.

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