Tesla was spotted on Sunday testing its Robotaxi in Miami, Florida, weeks after Elon Musk confirmed that the city is on the company’s expansion plans.
Earlier this Monday, Musk said the robotaxi service will open to the general public in Austin next month as Tesla awaits regulatory approval to operate the system in additional states.
The information was shared by X user ‘MichaelMuni’, who posted a video showing the vehicle driving with no one inside — not even a safety operator in the passenger seat, as it currently happens during rides in Austin.
Below is the video shared by the user ‘MichaelMuni’.
The Elon Musk-led EV maker follows Google’s Waymo, which announced the expansion of its robotaxi to Florida in late 2024.
“Through our new fleet partnership with Moove, a global leader in innovative mobility solutions, we’ll work to open our doors to riders in 2026, offering our ride-hailing service via the Waymo One app,” the company stated back then.
The Alphabet subsidiary currently offers ride-hailing services in California — San Francisco and Los Angeles — and in Phoenix, Arizona. It has partnered with Uber to operate in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Waymo plans to expand to Washington DC next year. It has further announced late last month that it will be arriving to Dallas, in Texas, where it has also began testing.
The Amazon-backed Zoox announced last year that it was testing its vehicle in both Austin, Texas and Miami, Florida.
However, the company clarified that it wouldn’t be deploying their robotaxi “or offering public rides in Austin or Miami just yet,” targeting Las Vegas and San Francisco first.
Last week, Tesla was spotted doing validation testing of its robotaxi in Georgetown, about 30 miles north of Austin.
A day later, the brand was granted a commercial permit by Texas’ Department of Licencing and Regulation to legally operate its ride-hailing service in the state.
Since late June, the company has expanded the geofenced area of its robotaxi service in Austin and introduced a dynamic pricing system based on distance, replacing the fixed fare structure.
In the latest earnings call in late July, Musk said it expects the service to be expanded to “probably half of the population of the US by the end of the year.”
“We are getting the regulatory permission to launch in the Bay Area, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, and a number of other places,” he stated.
The ride-hailing service was introduced late last month in the Bay Area, California, where autonomous driving faces stricter local regulations.
Therefore, every ride includes a safety monitor in the driver seat — which makes it similar to other ride-hailing services where the driver owns a Tesla and uses the Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature.
