Elon Musk, Tesla’s visionary CEO, made a bold promise earlier this week during a CNBC interview, vowing to deploy “hundreds of thousands, if not over a million” fully self-driving Tesla vehicles across U.S. roads by the end of 2026.
Speaking on “Power Lunch,” Musk outlined plans to launch the Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas, by late June 2025, starting with a small fleet of about 10 vehicles and scaling to 1,000 within months.
For Tesla drivers, investors, and urban planners, this ambitious timeline signals a transformative push toward autonomous mobility in a $4.7 trillion electric vehicle market, though skepticism lingers given Musk’s history of missed deadlines.
The announcement, coupled with Musk’s new role co-leading the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), underscores his relentless drive to advance Tesla’s Full Self-Driving…