Musk dice que los robotaxis serán generalizados este año — pero admite que solo ~30 vehículos operan ahora

Elon Musk said on May 19 that Tesla already has fully unsupervised vehicles operating with “no people inside and no safety monitors” in Austin, Houston and Dallas, and he said the service would be “widespread in the US by the end of this year.” He made the remarks by video at the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv, according to coverage of the event. (notateslaapp.com) (robotaxitracker.com) Robotaxi Tracker’s public monitor on May 20 showed a much smaller operation on the ground. The site listed 37 active vehicles over the past 30 days and 39 tracked vehicles network-wide, with 26 in Austin, six in Houston and five in Dallas. (electrek.co) That count is close to the “about 30” figure cited in Spanish-language and automotive coverage highlighting the gap between Musk’s forecast and Tesla’s current scale. ### ¿Qué dijo exactamente Musk sobre el despliegue? Musk said Tesla’s unsupervised Full Self-Driving service was already running in three Texas cities and would become widespread nationally by year-end. In the same interview, he also said AI would drive “probably 90% of all distance driven” within 10 years. (notateslaapp.com) USA Today separately reported on May 19 that Musk told summit attendees Tesla’s robotaxi service would be “widespread in the United States by the end of the year.” That account matched the timeline described in the summit coverage. (robotaxitracker.com) ### ¿Cuántos vehículos sin supervisión aparecen realmente? Robotaxi Tracker’s May 20 monitor broke the fleet out by city: Austin with 26 vehicles, Houston with six and Dallas with five. The same page said the network had logged 355 unsupervised rides and about 2,000 miles. Those figures matter because Tesla has not publicly released a city-by-city fleet count for the unsupervised service. (notateslaapp.com) On April 18, when Tesla announced robotaxi rollouts in Dallas and Houston, the company posted service maps but did not disclose how many vehicles would operate in either city, whether rides would be supervised or unsupervised, or what pricing would be. (usatoday.com) ### ¿Dónde opera Tesla y con qué límites? Tesla’s April 18 expansion put robotaxi service into Dallas and Houston beyond its earlier Austin footprint. Electrek reported that the Houston geofence covered about 25 square miles and that the Dallas zone centered on Highland Park, while Austin’s service area had grown to roughly 245 square miles over time. (robotaxitracker.com) The same report said Tesla’s announcement was thin on operating details and that most of the Austin fleet still used in-car safety monitors, even as a smaller subset ran without them. Tesla’s official robotaxi post, as described in that report, did not provide fleet size or operational breakdowns. (electrek.co) ### ¿Qué más se sabe sobre seguridad y supervisión remota? TechCrunch reported on May 15 that newly unredacted information submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed at least two Tesla robotaxi crashes since July 2025 involved teleoperators remotely driving the vehicles. (electrek.co) The Austin American-Statesman reported on May 20 that federal crash data showed rising crash counts in Austin for Avride, Waymo and Tesla. That adds a current regulatory backdrop to Musk’s expansion claims, even as Tesla pushes its unsupervised service into more Texas markets. (electrek.co) ### ¿Qué viene ahora y dónde mirar la próxima señal? May 20 data from Robotaxi Tracker remains the clearest public snapshot of Tesla’s unsupervised fleet size across Austin, Houston and Dallas. Any change in that count, or any new Tesla disclosure on fleet size, pricing or service areas, will show whether Musk’s year-end target is being matched by a faster rollout on the ground. (techcrunch.com) (robotaxitracker.com) (statesman.com)