Tesla's two-seat, steering-wheel-free Cybercab went live for the public in Austin on September 3, and federal regulators announced a safety audit the next morning.
Tesla launched commercial Cybercab rides in Austin, Texas on September 3, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced an audit query the next morning.
Compare that to how Tesla's own existing robotaxi service runs today.
Scaling a robotaxi service is a permitting slog, city by city, state by state, and Tesla's own numbers show how uneven that grind has been.
Dallas and Houston got fully driverless Robotaxi service in April, with crowdsourced trackers showing only tiny active fleets at launch.