{"id":4503,"date":"2025-10-15T08:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/4503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:14:18","slug":"tesla-spotted-testing-robotaxis-in-plano-texas-as-expansion-continues-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/4503\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Spotted Testing Robotaxis in Plano, Texas as Expansion Continues \u2013 EV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla<\/a> has begun validation testing of its autonomous robotaxi vehicles outside Dallas, Texas, as the company aims to continue expanding its self-driving service across more cities and states.<\/p>\n

The testing comes days after the Arizona Department of Transportation approved Tesla to begin autonomous robotaxi trials<\/a>, making it the fourth US state after California, Texas and Nevada to give the company the green light.<\/p>\n

Images shared on X by the user \u2018InnovatingCoin\u2019\u00a0showed two Tesla<\/a> vehicles equipped with roof-mounted sensors driving in Plano, Texas. <\/p>\n

Separately, Tesla<\/a> this week listed job openings for vehicle operators in California, including in Oakland, Burlingame, Colma, Berkeley and Hayward, signaling an expansion of its supervised testing program.<\/p>\n

At Tesla<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWe Robot\u201d event in October 2024, Chief Executive Elon Musk described the robotaxi network as \u201ca combination of Airbnb and Uber.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTesla\u2019s upcoming robotaxi will be like a combination of Airbnb and Uber,\u201d Musk stated. \u201cTesla car owners will be able to make money by adding their car to the fleet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives reiterated an Outperform rating on Tesla with a $500 price target, writing that \u201ccountless people are skeptical of Tesla\u2019s Robotaxi vision\u201d but that Musk was now in \u201cwartime CEO\u201d mode to accelerate development.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported earlier this week that Tesla<\/a> has caused concerns among national and California regulators after not fully informing them about its driverless ride-hailing rollout in the Bay Area.<\/a><\/p>\n

After some people compared the service to regular ride-hailing with a human driver using Tesla<\/a>\u2018s Full Self-Driving (FSD), Elon Musk said this month that the safety driver will likely be removed by year-end.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe safety driver is only needed for the first few months to be extra safe,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cThere should be no safety driver by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Politico recently reported that Tesla<\/a> has started requesting approval from several California airports to allow its driverless ride-hailing service to pick up and drop off passengers there.<\/p>\n

The public launch of the service is planned for later this month, with Tesla<\/a> having launched the Robotaxi app on Apple Store already, as it aims for half of the US population to be able to use the service by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla has begun validation testing of its autonomous robotaxi vehicles outside Dallas, Texas, as the company aims to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-4503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","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=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}