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Elon Musk Has Missed His Own Robotaxi Timelines Four Times Since 2025. Should Investors Still Believe the Next One?

Tesla's future rides on its robotaxi ambitions.

Elon Musk Has Missed His Own Robotaxi Timelines Four Times Since 2025. Should Investors Still Believe the Next One?

Published July 31, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has a long history of broken promises, so much so that there is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to tracking his failed predictions.

In 2013, for example, Musk declared that Tesla "should be able to do 90% of miles driven [autonomously] within three years." That prediction was ultimately inaccurate.

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In 2015, Musk doubled down by saying, "We're going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years." Again, Musk's forecasts were too ambitious.

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Originally published at www.fool.com.

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