Tesla Robotaxi Reaches Nearly Two Million Unsupervised Miles by Q3 End

Tesla’s Robotaxi service had logged nearly two million cumulative unsupervised miles by Sept. 30, a measure of driverless activity that does not show how much of the total came from paid passenger trips.

Unsupervised mileage grew at a sustained double-digit rate week over week during the quarter. The quarter-end total came without a count of paid rides or paid miles, or a Robotaxi revenue breakdown. The Q2 measure tracked cumulative paid miles, while the Q3 total counts unsupervised miles, so the two quarterly figures use different measures.

Cybercab rides began in Austin on Sept. 3, with service hours listed as 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. ET (11:00 UTC to 05:00 UTC). Tesla plans to shorten waits by increasing fleet supply and improving the algorithms that coordinate Robotaxi rides.

A separate safety tally covering Jan. 22 through Oct. 18 counted 2.95 million miles in Austin, Dallas and Houston, equal to 95% of Robotaxi’s total mileage during that period. The window ends 18 days after the quarter. It excludes miles driven with an in-car safety monitor but includes trips where a remote operator assists or takes control.

No injuries were counted in collisions where Robotaxi made first contact. No Robotaxi airbags deployed, and there were no collisions in which it first struck a pedestrian or cyclist. The tally’s injury measure does not cover every crash: an occupant of another vehicle was taken to a hospital after an earlier crash sent an SUV into a stationary Robotaxi, an injury outside the first-contact measure.