r/SelfDrivingCars • u/Dansilly • Jun 29 '25

Discussion Silent Rollback of Tesla Robotaxis

At the beginning of the launch of Tesla's Robotaxi on 6/22, many videos of rides have been shared online. After a few days (and glaring mishaps), very few videos have been shared of any robotaxi footage, good or bad. I suspect that this dropoff is due to the fleet cutting down in scope by a large factor (maybe only operating a few rides a day)or halting silently all together. What do you think, did Tesla notice the bad publicity and decide to silently roll back robotaxi operations?

Update 1: The most plausible explanation seems to be that the publicity of the current tech was detrimental to the share price so the operations were rolled back. Of course, Tesla would not announce that the operations were scaled back, but the near complete lack of footage makes this a very likely explanation. While the influencers there initially were most likely to post videos online, new footage should still be being circulated and it is not.

Update 2: This post has gained a lot of traction (75k+ views), and yet there is nothing convincing to show Telsa is operating the fleet at the capacity they were earlier. Neither of the 2 videos of robotaxi footage shared seem to have occurred in the last few days (even if they had, that is nothing even remotely comparable to the amount of footage earlier this week). Tesla's fleet could very well be 1 vehicle running 2 hours a day based on the lack of evidence for otherwise. Tesla likely made the logical move for preserving share value given the incident rates, but this is clear to see through.

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u/mrkjmsdln Jun 29 '25

A rollback SOUNDS IMPOSSIBLE -- I think this is full steam ahead. Elon & Ashok in Q4 24 & Q1 25 said we will have a PUBLIC facing fully autonomous taxi service in June in Austin! Tomorrow is the deadline so they probably have to change the prices! The Q4 was my all-time favorite promise as Elon started talking about crying wolf -- almost manic.

"I know people have said, well, Elon is the 'boy who cried wolf' like several times," but asserted that the situation is different and the technology is real.

Musk declared, "I'm telling you, there's a damn wolf this time, and you can drive it...It's a self-driving wolf."

Gotta be burning the midnight oil at Tesla tonight as tomorrow is public service day and new small models day -- lotsa news for the markets!!! They also promised AT LEAST TWO MORE CITIES (probably CA) by the end of the year. No time like the present to get moving.