Tesla announced Friday that its robotaxi service is available in Miami, marking its first expansion outside Texas and California.
The announcement came via a post on Tesla's official robotaxi X account: "Robotaxi now available in Miami," it said. According to Electrek , the coverage zone is a narrow slice of the broader metro, running through West Miami with corridors toward Doral and Sweetwater, with SR-826 forming the northern boundary and U.S.-41 the southern edge. Absent from the service area are Miami Beach, the airport, downtown Miami, and the overwhelming majority of Miami-Dade County.
Austin was the original home of Tesla's unsupervised robotaxi operation, which debuted in June of last year before the company pushed into Dallas and Houston. Tesla had grouped Miami with Phoenix, Orlando, Tampa, and Las Vegas as cities it planned to enter during the first half of 2026, though that deadline gradually gave way to more ambiguous language about preparations being underway.
The Miami launch arrives as the Austin operation remains limited in scale. According to Electrek, Austin city officials estimate the total Tesla fleet there at around 50 cars, though the subset running without any onboard Tesla employee has actually contracted over time, dropping from a high of roughly 25 down to approximately 14. Riders face waits of more than 15 minutes, and spot checks found the service completely unavailable over a quarter of the time.
During the Q1 2026 earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk framed the bottleneck explicitly as a safety question, telling investors the company would not push for growth until a rewritten iteration of its Full Self-Driving software delivered the necessary improvements. Tesla has reported a series of crashes to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Austin.
Musk cautioned investors against high near-term expectations for the program, saying material revenue from the robotaxi business is unlikely before at least 2027. Tesla competes in the robotaxi sector against Alphabet's Waymo and Amazon's Zoox, both of which have been expanding their own services.
