All smoke and mirrors since the beginning. The Robotaxi program is a distraction from Tesla not delivering on the promise of unsupervised self-driving, which it sold to millions of consumer car buyers. It's also meant to boost the $TSLA stock price, as the illusion of leadership in autonomy keeps Tesla's 300 P/E ratio stock alive. Just a few months ago @elonmusk claimed Tesla Robotaxi would cover half the US and 500 cars would be operating in Austin alone. In fact, Tesla is operating only a handful of car at a time and with safety monitor (inside or outside the cars) because its crash rate is way higher than humans otherwise. The small fleet reduces the risk while keeping the illusion that Tesla somehow competes with Waymo.