Tesla also showed a new Robotaxi safety website, in which the firm confirms it has driven 3.3 million miles autonomously
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But even if Tesla opens up its robotaxi fleet to customer-owned vehicles, major regulatory hurdles remain.
Key facts
- Over 75 percent of new buyers picked the feature this quarter, a big jump of almost 20 percentage points compared to last quarter
- Older Model 3 and Y vehicles without the latest full-self-driving hardware suites (or AI compute infrastructure) are constrained by hardware capability
- According to Tesla VP for Autonomous Driving Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla owners will be able to add their own vehicles to the company’s robotaxi fleet in the second quarter of 2027
- In 2019, Musk stood on stage at the company’s first AI Day and vowed that customer-owned vehicles could be used as part of a “Tesla Network” of robotaxis, earning their owners passive income
Summary
Tesla has set a Q2 2027 target to let owners opt their cars into its robotaxi network—a major promise, but one that comes with a history of missed deadlines and steep regulatory hurdles. For years, Elon Musk has been making big promises to Tesla owners about unsupervised autonomous driving and the ability to add their own vehicles to the company’s robotaxi fleet. According to Tesla VP for Autonomous Driving Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla owners will be able to add their own vehicles to the company’s robotaxi fleet in the second quarter of 2027. Like the reporter mentioned earlier, the software for Cybercabs and Model Y is the same. It’s important to mark this deadline because it’s likely that Tesla will sail right past it.