EVwire brief: Tesla has launched its Robotaxi service in Miami, Florida, its first market outside Texas and California. The company announced the expansion through its official Robotaxi account on X, fittingly in Spanish, and Miami now appears on Tesla's Robotaxi support page as an active service area.
The service zone covers a slice of the metro west of downtown, taking in West Miami, the Fontainebleau area, and Miami International Airport, and stretching roughly from the edge of Doral in the north toward the northern edge of Coral Gables in the southeast, at least based on our read of the geofence map. Rides use Model Y vehicles, with the front-left seat off-limits to riders.
Here's the Tesla Robotaxi announcement on X:
Tesla didn't publish a blog post for the launch, but its Robotaxi support page fills in the practical details. Pricing follows the introductory program Tesla runs in Texas: a simple flat rate plus taxes and fees for rides within the service area, with the estimate shown in the app before you confirm, and pricing subject to change.
Riders control climate, seat position, and media from the Robotaxi app or the car's touchscreen, and those settings persist in a passenger profile between rides. Tesla owners get some of their driver-profile and media preferences carried over automatically.
The Robotaxi network’s Miami geofence at launch
The Robotaxi support page currently lists operating hours of 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. Central Time across the service. That said, Miami runs on Eastern Time, so the support page seemingly has some catching up to do with the company's expansion pace.
Tesla also has not clarified if the Robotaxi fleet in Miami will be Unsupervised like those in Texas, though the wording in the service’s FAQ suggests that this will be the case. This would mean that the Bay Area remains the odd one out of the Robotaxi Network’s locations, as it is the only one that still requires safety drivers.
As highlighted by Tesla community member Nic Cruz Patane:
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One thing Tesla hasn't said is whether Miami rides begin with a safety monitor aboard, as Austin's early rides did, or fully unsupervised from day one, the way Dallas and Houston launched in April. Those Texas launches also set the service's aggressive price benchmark, with early rides undercutting Waymo by roughly half on comparable trips.
Miami is also the first city where Tesla's Robotaxi goes head-to-head with an established incumbent. Waymo has run driverless rides there since January and opened fully to the public in April across a roughly 60-square-mile zone centered on Brickell, Wynwood, the Design District, and Coral Gables.
Source: Tesla Robotaxi on X, and Tesla's Robotaxi support page
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