At the recent Samson International Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv, Tesla CEO Elon Musk delivered a familiar statement: unsupervised “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) will be “widespread in the US by the end of this year.” However, a closer look at the company’s current footprint and historical track record suggests this ambitious timeline is on a collision course with reality.The Gap Between Rhetoric and RealityDespite the promise of a nationwide rollout within seven months, Tesla currently operates a meager fleet of roughly 30 unsupervised robotaxis, entirely confined to three Texas cities: Austin, Dallas, and Houston, with promises to expand to an additional two cities. Scaling such a limited pilot program to a “widespread” national presence by December defies the company’s current rate of technological and geographical expansion.
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This latest prediction fits neatly into a decade-long pattern of missed deadlines. For over a decade, Musk has routinely heralded imminent breakthrough …
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Author: Yash Bajaj
