Elon Musk Said You Could Sleep in Your Tesla by 2025. The Safety Monitor in the Passenger Seat Disagrees.

Elon Musk has been promising fully autonomous Teslas since 2013. In April 2025, he declared with confidence that Americans would be able to sleep through their commute by year's end. Reality check: As of March 2026, Tesla's "robotaxi" service operates with a human safety monitor in the passenger seat holding an emergency stop button. The service launched to a limited number of invited passengers with time and domain restrictions. Wikipedia now maintains an entire page dedicated to Musk's failed autonomy predictions — 30+ missed deadlines and counting. His 2014 prediction of "true autonomous driving" by 2023? No. His 2019 promise of "a million robotaxis" by 2020? No. His 2023 claim of achieving "Level 4 or 5" by year-end? Also no. At this point, Musk's FSD timeline predictions have aged worse than milk left in a Tesla parked in the Arizona sun. A federal judge did rule that his statements constitute "corporate puffery" — i.e., legally protected optimism so consistently wrong that investors can't reasonably rely on it. That's not the vindication he thinks it is.