Tesla's Head of AI Ashok Elluswamy has confirmed that the company's Miami Robotaxi service is operating on an Unsupervised basis, with no employee monitoring the vehicles from inside the cabin. The one-word confirmation on X puts Miami on the same tier as Austin, making Florida the first state outside Texas where Tesla runs fully driverless rides from launch day.
Miami Joins Austin On Full FSD
The service began on June 3 in a compact 10-to-14 square-mile geofence in western Miami-Dade County — West Miami toward Doral and Sweetwater, bounded roughly by SR-826 and US-41. Field reports and license plate tracking suggest only two unsupervised Model Y vehicles were active on launch day, expanding to three within 48 hours, with dozens more Cybercabs and Model Ys staged near Miami International Airport for rapid scaling.
Neural Networks Meet South Florida Traffic
Miami's dense pedestrian activity, torrential summer rain and aggressive traffic patterns are a stress test for Tesla's vision-only FSD stack. The confirmation matters because it decouples Tesla's growth model from safety-driver headcount and lets fleet economics scale with software updates rather than payroll. The Ben White Blvd site in Austin — Tesla's Cybercab hub — points to an operating model where cabin cleaning, Supercharging and inspection are also fully automated between rides.
The Robotaxi Race Widens
Tesla's expansion collides with rivals in every direction. Uber is battling Waymo over DC rules, XPeng's closed beta went live in Guangzhou this week, and Volvo Autonomous Solutions started driverless freight between Dallas and Houston. Miami's small footprint is deliberate — a data-collection base for the next wave of city expansions.
Reporting based on coverage from Teslarati, Tesla Oracle and The Road to Autonomy.