{"id":313628,"date":"2026-05-29T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/313628\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:26:07","slug":"tesla-has-far-fewer-autonomous-vehicles-on-texas-roads-than-waymo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/313628\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Has Far Fewer Autonomous Vehicles on Texas Roads Than Waymo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly a year after launching its robotaxi service in Texas<\/a>, Tesla has just 42 vehicles on the road, compared with Waymo’s fleet<\/a> of 577.<\/p>\n

The figures come from newly available records on the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles website, which were disclosed as part of a new state authorization process for autonomous-vehicle companies that took effect on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The records show Tesla has a smaller Texas fleet than other autonomous-vehicle operators, including Avride, which has 317 vehicles, and Nuro, which has 47.<\/p>\n

Tesla launched a pilot of its robotaxi service in the state last June, initially offering rides to a limited group of invited users<\/a> in Austin. Though the vehicles are intended to be fully self-driving, the company kept employees in the front passenger seat as an added safety measure.<\/p>\n

In January, Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software, said that some of its robotaxis in Austin have begun operating without a human chaperone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Starting with a few unsupervised vehicles mixed in with the broader robotaxi fleet with safety monitors, and the ratio will increase over time,” he wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beyond Austin, Tesla says on its website<\/a> that its robotaxi service is available in parts of Dallas and Houston.<\/p>\n

In contrast, Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving unit, launched its own driverless service in Austin through a partnership with Uber<\/a> in March 2025.<\/p>\n

Waymo’s Texas service also extends to Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, though it temporarily suspended rides<\/a> in those cities in the past month amid concerns about how its vehicles respond to flooded roads. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly a year after launching its robotaxi service in Texas, Tesla has just 42 vehicles on the road,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-313628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}