Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Stuck at 59 Vehicles as Musk's 1,000-Car Year-End Target Requires 17× Expansion in Seven Months

Bloomberg's investigation found Tesla's unsupervised robotaxi fleet stands at just 59 vehicles across Austin, Dallas, and Houston nearly a year after launch, with most rides still supervised and limited to geofenced zones with wait times up to 30 minutes. Reaching Musk's 1,000-vehicle end-of-2026 target would require a 17× fleet expansion in about seven months, a pace the current trajectory makes implausible. Waymo operates a Texas fleet roughly ten times larger, while reporters found software and operational failures — stalled rides, wrong drop-offs, canceled bookings — that adding vehicles alone will not fix.