{"id":420957,"date":"2026-08-30T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420957\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:15:10","slug":"tesla-robotaxi-quotes-rider-66-minutes-to-go-2-3-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420957\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla robotaxi quotes rider 66 minutes to go 2.3 miles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Months after Tesla<\/a> launched its robotaxis<\/a> in Texas, riders are still reporting major issues. One passenger who calls himself a “Tesla ambassador” recently had a nightmarish ride in Austin.<\/p>\n

Reggie Overton documented his experience on X. He said he requested a Tesla robotaxi and was quoted a 66-minute ride for 2.3 miles. Certain it was a bug, he called Tesla support. After some back-and-forth, Overton was told the ride could not be rerouted. He ultimately had to change his destination to get out of the robotaxi and call an Uber.<\/p>\n

“For a 2.3-mile trip, this was an incredibly frustrating experience especially when support had no way to correct what was clearly a routing problem,” Overton posted on X. Tesla later issued Overton a refund.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tesla’s robotaxi launch hasn’t gone smoothly. Since the limited launch in Austin last summer, users have reported massive wait times, wrong drop-off points, and other issues. Tesla also previously put out a wildly inconvenient service map for Austin<\/a> that at least made CEO Elon Musk laugh.<\/p>\n

Tesla’s robotaxi rides are available in limited areas of Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida and Austin, Dallas and Houston in Texas. Musk predicted months ago<\/a> that Tesla would “have autonomous ride-hailing in about half the population of the US by the end of the year.” (Meanwhile, this editor can report she’s never seen a driverless Cybercab in Austin, but many, many driver-filled ones, presumably still in their testing phases. It’s almost September.)<\/p>\n

Tesla is holding an invitation-only launch party for the Cybercab\u00a0in Austin on Sept. 3. Time will tell if the company can catch up to Waymo in the robotaxi game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Months after Tesla launched its robotaxis in Texas, riders are still reporting major issues. One passenger who calls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,85765,2466,1704],"class_list":["post-420957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-chronbrands","tag-chronculture","tag-chronstaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420957","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=420957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}