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“A driverless Tesla Robotaxi will never be released.”

"There will be NO robotaxi for at least 10-20 years."

“We continue to struggle to see Tesla overcoming the technological and regulatory hurdles needed to leapfrog current level 4 robotaxis, and believe fully unsupervised FSD could be years away.”

"There is a 17% chance that Tesla robotaxi service will be released to the public before Jan 1, 2026."

"We believe widescale Tesla robotaxi deployment is unlikely within the coming years."

"Next-gen platform won't be out till around 2027, Robotaxis built on that will be out thereafter."

"And that snap [Robotaxi for public] looks like the first half of 2026."

"I tend to be a little optimistic with time frames, but in 2026, so yeah, before 2027. Let me put it that way."

"I believe they’ll have robotaxi operations with or without safety monitors in 5 cities and fully remove safety monitors in at least one city by early April of 2026."

"Strategically, I do think we have a 90% chance to see Robotaxi domination in the next 15 months."

Will Tesla Operate a Paid, Fully Driverless Robotaxi Service Open to the General Public in at Least One U.S. City by 2027?

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the company's new Alpamayo system at the CES trade show in Las Vegas on Monday, a family of models that NVIDIA claims will advance the development of driverless vehicles.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the company's new Alpamayo system at the CES trade show in Las Vegas on Monday, a family of models that NVIDIA claims will advance the development of driverless vehicles.

In a statement, Huang said, "Alpamayo brings reasoning to autonomous vehicles, allowing them to think through rare scenarios, drive safely in complex environments and explain their driving decisions."

In a statement, Huang said, "Alpamayo brings reasoning to autonomous vehicles, allowing them to think through rare scenarios, drive safely in complex environments and explain their driving decisions."

The platform includes Alpamayo 1, a 10-billion-parameter reasoning-based vision language action (VLA) model currently available on Hugging Face for the autonomous vehicle (AV) research community.

The platform includes Alpamayo 1, a 10-billion-parameter reasoning-based vision language action (VLA) model currently available on Hugging Face for the autonomous vehicle (AV) research community.

NVIDIA's Physical AI Autonomous Vehicles dataset complements the VLA model, which NVIDIA claims is one of the largest and most geographically diverse of its kind for AV research, with 1,727 hours of driving data recorded across 25 countries and over 2,500 cities.

NVIDIA's Physical AI Autonomous Vehicles dataset complements the VLA model, which NVIDIA claims is one of the largest and most geographically diverse of its kind for AV research, with 1,727 hours of driving data recorded across 25 countries and over 2,500 cities.

The final part of the platform is AlpaSim, an open-source simulation framework built on a microservice architecture, enabling closed-loop testing for evaluating AV models. The system is also capable of pipeline parallelism and horizontal scaling across multiple GPUs.

The final part of the platform is AlpaSim, an open-source simulation framework built on a microservice architecture, enabling closed-loop testing for evaluating AV models. The system is also capable of pipeline parallelism and horizontal scaling across multiple GPUs.

Separately, NVIDIA confirmed that production had begun on the Mercedes-Benz CLA, a driverless car featuring NVIDIA DRIVE AV software, in conjunction with the German car manufacturer, which NVIDIA expects to launch in the U.S. by the end of 2026.

Separately, NVIDIA confirmed that production had begun on the Mercedes-Benz CLA, a driverless car featuring NVIDIA DRIVE AV software, in conjunction with the German car manufacturer, which NVIDIA expects to launch in the U.S. by the end of 2026.

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NVIDIA introduced Alpamayo, a platform comprising AI models, simulation tools and datasets designed to advance autonomous vehicle development. The platform includes Alpamayo 1, a 10-billion-parameter reasoning vision-language-action model available on Hugging Face.

NVIDIA introduced Alpamayo, a platform comprising AI models, simulation tools and datasets designed to advance autonomous vehicle development. The platform includes Alpamayo 1, a 10-billion-parameter reasoning vision-language-action model available on Hugging Face.

The Physical AI Autonomous Vehicles dataset contains 1,727 hours of driving data recorded across 25 countries and over 2,500 cities, making it one of the largest and most geographically diverse open datasets available for autonomous vehicle research.

The Physical AI Autonomous Vehicles dataset contains 1,727 hours of driving data recorded across 25 countries and over 2,500 cities, making it one of the largest and most geographically diverse open datasets available for autonomous vehicle research.

AlpaSim is an open-source simulation framework built on a microservice architecture that enables closed-loop testing and evaluation of autonomous vehicle models. The system allows for pipeline parallelism and horizontal scaling across multiple GPUs.

AlpaSim is an open-source simulation framework built on a microservice architecture that enables closed-loop testing and evaluation of autonomous vehicle models. The system allows for pipeline parallelism and horizontal scaling across multiple GPUs.

Mercedes-Benz will launch the CLA as the first vehicle featuring NVIDIA DRIVE AV software with enhanced level 2 driver-assistance capabilities in the United States by the end of this year. The vehicle recently achieved a five-star European New Car Assessment Program safety rating.

Mercedes-Benz will launch the CLA as the first vehicle featuring NVIDIA DRIVE AV software with enhanced level 2 driver-assistance capabilities in the United States by the end of this year. The vehicle recently achieved a five-star European New Car Assessment Program safety rating.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the Alpamayo platform at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, stating it allows autonomous vehicles to think through rare scenarios and explain their driving decisions. Elon Musk responded on social media that Tesla is doing exactly the same thing.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the Alpamayo platform at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, stating it allows autonomous vehicles to think through rare scenarios and explain their driving decisions. Elon Musk responded on social media that Tesla is doing exactly the same thing.

NVIDIA DRIVE AV uses a dual-stack architecture combining an AI end-to-end stack for core driving with a parallel classical safety stack built on NVIDIA Halos safety system. This design provides redundancy and safety guardrails for autonomous vehicle operations.

NVIDIA DRIVE AV uses a dual-stack architecture combining an AI end-to-end stack for core driving with a parallel classical safety stack built on NVIDIA Halos safety system. This design provides redundancy and safety guardrails for autonomous vehicle operations.

Driverless cars have proven dangerous across American cities, causing traffic disruptions, blocking emergency responders, and resulting in accidents, injuries and deaths. These vehicles threaten the safety of families, cyclists, seniors and people with disabilities navigating urban streets from New York to Miami. Testing must stop immediately and autonomous vehicles should be banned from operating in the United States.

Driverless cars have proven dangerous across American cities, causing traffic disruptions, blocking emergency responders, and resulting in accidents, injuries and deaths. These vehicles threaten the safety of families, cyclists, seniors and people with disabilities navigating urban streets from New York to Miami. Testing must stop immediately and autonomous vehicles should be banned from operating in the United States.

Robotaxis represent the most dramatic transportation revolution in over a century and will fundamentally improve urban life. These vehicles are involved in ten times fewer serious crashes than human drivers, offering unprecedented safety improvements. As costs drop and technology spreads to cities like Miami and Washington, autonomous vehicles will boost productivity, free up valuable urban space and create economic opportunities.

Robotaxis represent the most dramatic transportation revolution in over a century and will fundamentally improve urban life. These vehicles are involved in ten times fewer serious crashes than human drivers, offering unprecedented safety improvements. As costs drop and technology spreads to cities like Miami and Washington, autonomous vehicles will boost productivity, free up valuable urban space and create economic opportunities.

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Self-driving cars represent the most dramatic transportation revolution in over a century and will fundamentally improve urban life. Involved in ten times fewer serious crashes than human drivers, these vehicles offer unprecedented safety improvements. As costs fall and the technology becomes more widespread, AVs will also boost productivity, creating new economic opportunities.

Self-driving cars represent the most dramatic transportation revolution in over a century and will fundamentally improve urban life. Involved in ten times fewer serious crashes than human drivers, these vehicles offer unprecedented safety improvements. As costs fall and the technology becomes more widespread, AVs will also boost productivity, creating new economic opportunities.

Driverless cars have proven to be a danger time and again, causing chaos, blocking emergency vehicles, and leading to accidents. In addition to putting the safety of pedestrians and motorists alike at risk, the technology also threatens the livelihoods of countless drivers who rely on driving for a living. AVs, therefore, must be banned entirely for the public good.

Driverless cars have proven to be a danger time and again, causing chaos, blocking emergency vehicles, and leading to accidents. In addition to putting the safety of pedestrians and motorists alike at risk, the technology also threatens the livelihoods of countless drivers who rely on driving for a living. AVs, therefore, must be banned entirely for the public good.

Half of the new cars sold in the US in December 2031 will be fully autonomous, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

Half of the new cars sold in the US in December 2031 will be fully autonomous, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

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