How many hours a week does Robotaxi operate?
“Robotaxi works 168 hours a week”
— Elon Musk, 11 November 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
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Self-Driving
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What battery size and color is Tesla planning for the Cybercab?
“There are efficiency improvements coming that will allow for a 40kWh Cybercab pack. We will make this in liquid silver, so the colors are not too monotonous.”
— Elon Musk, 7 November 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Will Cybercab replace Model 3?
“I mean Cybercab is primarily going to be something that is offered as like transport as a service whereas our other cars would be more the cars that you'd want to own like the 3 and the Y and whatnot, and Roadster, obviously.”
— Elon Musk, 22 October 2026 · Watch: Tesla Q3 2026 earnings call (2026) · 31:55 ↗ · In the archive
Do people buy a Tesla for the car or for FSD?
“People are buying FSD with a car attached, not the other way around…”
— Elon Musk, 21 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Can the Roadster do its tricks by itself, and where can I try one?
“True. You will be able to ask the Roadster to perform any of the tricks shown autonomously, as it will be sentient. Also, we will have a wild looping track (crazier even than Hot Wheels) at our Texas HQ where you can test out your Roadster.”
— Elon Musk, 17 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
When will Tesla robotaxi / Cybercab launch and scale?
“Robotaxi operating hours moved from 10pm to 11pm. The main thing we’re trying to solve is making sure that we don’t run over pets when they’re hard to see at night. Literally trying to avoid grey kittens on grey tarmac in the dark.”
— Elon Musk, 3 October 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
When do you anticipate looking at autonomy for the Semi?
“…we expect to do get self driving working on the Tesla semi probably around the end of this year or early next year…”
— Elon Musk, 22 July 2026 · Watch: Tesla Q2 2026 earnings call · 55:19 ↗ · In the archive
Opening remarks
“We have just started production of Cybercab and will begin production of Our semi truck soon.”
— Elon Musk, 22 April 2026 · Watch: Tesla Q1 2026 earnings call · 10:18 ↗ · In the archive
When will Tesla Full Self-Driving be unsupervised?
“Tesla V14.3 self-driving review. The point releases will bring polish. V15 will far exceed human levels of safety, even in completely unsupervised and complex situations.”
— Elon Musk, 9 April 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
When will Tesla Full Self-Driving be unsupervised?
“I should also mention that the $99/month for supervised FSD will rise as FSD’s capabilities improve. The massive value jump is when you can be on your phone or sleeping for the entire ride (unsupervised FSD).”
— Elon Musk, 23 January 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Is unsupervised self-driving solved?
“Unsupervised is pretty much solved at this point. There will be Tesla Robotaxis operating in Austin with no one in them, not even anyone in the passenger seat, in about three weeks.”
— Elon Musk, 9 December 2025 · Electrek ↗ · In the archive
When will Robotaxis drive without a safety driver?
“The safety driver is just there for the first few months to be extra safe. Should be no safety driver by end of year.”
— Elon Musk, 4 September 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
How do you see the robotaxi platform coexisting with Tesla's lineup? Will it replace the Model 3?
“…this cyber cap which is a two-seater and that would that would not replace the three and y…”
— Elon Musk, 27 July 2025 · Watch: Elon Musk Interview | The Future, Engineered | X Takeover 2025 · 17:24 ↗ · In the archive
How many people will have access to Robotaxi?
“I think we will probably have autonomous ride-hailing in probably half the population of the US by the end of the year.”
— Elon Musk, 23 July 2025 · Teslarati ↗ · In the archive
When is FSD coming to Europe?
“FSD in Europe will save lives of people in the car, as well as vulnerable road users like pedestrians, cyclists and pets. Please let your government know that you want approval. First (supervised) FSD approval in Europe! Congratulations to the Tesla team and thank you to the regulatory authorities in the Netherlands for all the hard work required to make this happen.”
— Elon Musk, 12 June 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
When will Tesla Full Self-Driving be unsupervised?
“These are unmodified Tesla cars coming straight from the factory, meaning that every Tesla coming out of our factories is capable of unsupervised self-driving!”
— Elon Musk, 10 June 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Q1 2025 call: large-scale autonomy
“I feel confident in predicting large scale autonomy around the middle of next year, certainly the second half next year, meaning I predict that there will be millions of Teslas operating autonomously…”
— Elon Musk, 22 April 2025 · Watch: Tesla Q1 2025 earnings call (2025) · 36:41 ↗ · In the archive
Q1 2025 call: Austin Model Ys
“…the Model Y's that we're talking about in being autonomous in Austin in June are the Model Y's we make currently.”
— Elon Musk, 22 April 2025 · Watch: Tesla Q1 2025 earnings call (2025) · 50:18 ↗ · In the archive
Q3 2024 call: the autonomous future
“…non autonomous gasoline vehicles in the future will be like riding a horse…”
— Elon Musk, 23 October 2024 · Watch: Tesla Q3 2024 earnings call (2024) · 37:48 ↗ · In the archive
Q1 2024 call: the value of unsupervised FSD
“I think it might be the biggest asset value appreciation in history when that thing happens when you can do unsupervised, full self driving.”
— Elon Musk, 23 April 2024 · Watch: Tesla Q1 2024 earnings call (2024) · 30:55 ↗ · In the archive
Can Tesla's camera-only approach achieve self-driving?
“…it is obvious that our solution with a relatively low cost inference computer and standard cameras can achieve self driving. No lidars, no radars, no ultrasonics, nothing.”
— Elon Musk, 23 April 2024 · Watch: Tesla Q1 2024 earnings call (2024) · 46:32 ↗ · In the archive
When will Tesla Full Self-Driving be unsupervised?
“Supervised FSD is vastly safer than human driving. Unsupervised FSD is trending well. Over time, Version 12 (end-to-end neural nets) will far exceed human safety even when unsupervised.”
— Elon Musk, 23 November 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Q3 2023 call: why self-driving predictions have been early
“Obviously in the past I've been overly optimistic about this. The reason I've been overly is that the progress tends to sort of look like a log, a log curve…”
— Elon Musk, 18 October 2023 · Watch: Tesla Q3 2023 earnings call (2023) · 31:12 ↗ · In the archive
When will Full Self-Driving actually be done?
“I’m the boy who cried FSD, but man, I think we’ll be better than human by the end of this year… I’ve been wrong in the past, I may be wrong this time.”
— Elon Musk, 19 July 2023 · Markets Insider ↗ · In the archive
How advanced is Tesla self-driving?
“Tesla self-driving is by far the most advanced real world AI”
— Elon Musk, 30 April 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Will Teslas ever automatically adjust side mirrors for new drivers?
“Yes, but side mirrors won’t be needed in a self-driving future”
— Elon Musk, 18 August 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Would Tesla license autonomy?
“I think Tesla's open to licensing Autonomy because I think Autonomy will be such a significant lifesaver and preventer of injuries that it is not a technology we want to keep to ourselves.”
— Elon Musk, 7 October 2021 · Watch: Tesla Shareholder Meeting 2021 · 3:29 ↗ · In the archive
Is Dojo needed for full autonomy?
“Dojo isn’t needed, but will make self-driving better. It isn’t enough to be safer than human drivers, Autopilot ultimately needs to be more than 10 times safer than human drivers.”
— Elon Musk, 1 January 2021 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
How safe does self-driving need to be?
“It isn’t enough to be safer than human drivers, Autopilot ultimately needs to be more than 10 times safer than human drivers. The threshold is achieving safety far in excess of the average human driver. Ultimately, autonomous cars will be >1,000% safer than human-driven cars.”
— Elon Musk, 1 January 2021 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Q3 2020 call: FSD without maps
“…even if you have no connectivity whatsoever and you're in a place that you have never been to before and no Tesla has ever been there, the car should still be able to drive just like a person.”
— Elon Musk, 21 October 2020 · Watch: Tesla Q3 2020 earnings call (2020) · 25:47 ↗ · In the archive
Q2 2020 call: value of FSD upgrade
“I think the upgrading of the fleet to full self driving essentially with an over the software update, I mean, may go down as the biggest asset value increase in history.”
— Elon Musk, 22 July 2020 · Watch: Tesla Q2 2020 earnings call (2020) · 15:43 ↗ · In the archive
Q4 2019 call: car sharing before robotaxis
“…it probably will make sense to have the, to enable car sharing in advance of the kind of sort of giant robotaxi fleet because the car sharing can be done before full self driving is approved by regulators.”
— Elon Musk, 29 January 2020 · Watch: Tesla Q4 and full year 2019 earnings call (2020) · 14:42 ↗ · In the archive
Q4 2019 earnings call: high-capacity vehicle
“…will it make sense just for us to do sort of a minivan or you know, sort of sprinter like that at some point probably.”
— Elon Musk, 29 January 2020 · Watch: Tesla Q4 and full year 2019 earnings call (2020) · 42:07 ↗ · In the archive
Do the cars already have the hardware for self-driving?
“All Tesla cars right now have everything necessary for self-driving available today. All you need to do is improve the software. If you fast forward a year, maybe a year three months, we’ll have over a million robo-taxis on the road.”
— Elon Musk, 22 April 2019 · Engadget ↗ · In the archive
What's the timeline for the new self-driving chip?
“~6 months before it is in all new production cars. No change to sensors. This is simple replacement of the Autopilot computer. Will be done free of charge for those who ordered full self-driving.”
— Elon Musk, 16 October 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
When will Hardware 3 be introduced, and will HW2 owners get it free?
“Probably 4 to 6 months. Those who order full self-driving get the upgrade at no cost. It isn’t needed just for enhanced Autopilot.”
— Elon Musk, 8 August 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Was Autopilot to blame in the Minnesota rollover crash?
“Not true. Email from customer.”
— Elon Musk, 17 July 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Will Model 3's Autopilot detect emergency and police vehicles?
“Model 3, Model X & Model S will all have same level of Autopilot capability. It's just a matter of refining the vision & control software.”
— Elon Musk, 22 May 2017 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
Any updates on Enhanced Autopilot?
“Tesla software team is working seven days a week to complete testing and validation. Getting close.”
— Elon Musk, 18 December 2016 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive